Originally Posted by professor

absolutely micro! and just now, thinking about dumbo, i started to think about these fantasies of flying. i've never been a fan of the "if you just believe you can do it, you can do it" version of the fantasy. i'm enough of an idealist (in the philosophical sense) to think that belief is a necessary condition for accomplishment, but enough of a materialist (again philosophically speaking) to think that belief alone is insufficient for accomplishment unless that belief spurs a concrete reconfiguration of your material circumstances (i.e. practicing your skills, making the physical effort, putting yourself in actual circumstances that are favorable to your success). in other words I don't believe in magic in the disney sense. elephants can't fly. now, indeed, who better than the Pistons to show the truth of that?