See it, say it, sort it: to tell or not to tell?

> ‘Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.’ > > (Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms , 1955) What do we want to know, and what not? This often seems ‘irrational’, even unnegotiable, to others. Three vignettes from different decades portray our conundrums. A crisp, bright autumn morning. It is only my third week in this poor, inner-city practice: almost everyone is still a...