The Scout's Vision of Reality Is Imperfect

The Scout is a great metaphor for thinking about a way to live in a way to make your way through the world, which is really complicated. I think people have tried to push people towards scout rather than soldier by encouraging numeracy and economic literacy. A large subset of people are not interested in being more scout-like. They like being soldiers. But then there's also a very large subset who at least in theory like the idea of being more scout-.