The first time I saw ‘holistic’ as a word referring to a whole system, I thought it was a trick, some kind of joke. It was too obviously wrong. It sent shock waves up my editorial arm. It reminded me of a stunt we’d play at battalion level in the Army, Ft. Hood, to be particular. We’d start something impossible going just to see who the fools were wh…
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