Last week I wrote about Luigi Mangione’s outreach to his favorite author, Tim Ubran. Mangione had contacted Urban to praise his work but also said something that got Urban thinking later. He had praised a line Urban had written but he actually botched the quote a bit.
He remembered it as “A high-level thinker sees a foggy world through clear eyes, while a low-level thinker sees a clear world through foggy eyes.” In fact, what I’d written at the time was: “The scientist’s clear vision shows them a complex, foggy world, the Attorney’s foggy vision shows them a world that’s straightforward, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distinctions.”
It’s sort of a paraphrase of what Urban wrote but more importantly, Mangione seems to have seen himself as the high-level thinker even though his actions peg him as the person who saw things in black and…
