Ken Lizotte
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336 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Ken Lizotte’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a thing nowadays that we get so much information, it's easy to get.
You can get it in 20 seconds or whatever, but it's so much information.
Do we need all that information?
And I think that it would have driven Henry crazy and disoriented the hell out of him.
But I think what he would have done in response was get out of the freaking house and go back to Walden Woods and walk around for four hours and just forget about it.
Yeah.
I think I put this in the book, but when he said that, it's hard to know if this was a real thing that happened or not, but it said that Henry said that to Ralph Waldo Emerson, simplify, to which Emerson supposedly said, Henry, one simplify would have been enough.
So the point I make with that is that it was tough even for him.
Even a simple message like that, it's very insidious kind of thing to be pulled toward complexity and information overload and that kind of thing.
But he's our guy to keep reminding us that we should resist it.
Yeah, you're reminding me of a quotation.
Beware of enterprises that require you to wear new clothes or purchase new clothes or whatever.
His life was all about being what he felt we should all be.
So he chose entrepreneurial journalism because whenever he didn't, it seemed like he got himself into trouble.
His job as a teacher, for example, is a good example of it, where here he had just graduated from Harvard and there were no jobs because it was a depression at the time called the Panic of 1837.
And he did somehow land a job as a teacher right there, right here in Concord.
But he was assured that he would not have to maintain discipline through corporal punishment.
And then there was a supervisor from the school committee that came and sat in the back of the room and watched how he handled things and things where kids were a little wildness on that.
And the guy told him afterwards that you're going to have to do that.
You've got to have got to maintain order and quiet.
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