My plan for the next four years

About this episode

Garrison Keillor discusses the art of managing distractions and the prospects of international peace.

Life is good once you master the art of Deletion. Every day my laptop is full of emails asking for money to do worthwhile, even noble, things, which, if I donated to them, I’d soon be living in a cardboard box in a vacant lot, and so I click on “Unsubscribe” and they go away for a while. Instead, I google “What is the prospect of international peace and understanding?” and find that the U.N. thinks it’s inevitable and dalailama.com says it’s based on compassion and foreignpolicy.com thinks the prospects are not good. We didn’t used to have Google, my kiddoes, we used to sit and worry about these things and now at last clear answers are available. Contradictory, but still. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit garrisonkeillor.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Garrison Keillor

Topics covered

• international peace
• understanding
• compassion
• deletion
• email management

Keywords

• international peace
• deletion
• emails
• compassion
• U.N.
• foreign policy
• Google

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.N., foreignpolicy.com

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