Would we so revere risk-taking if we realized that the people who are supposedly taking bold risks in the cause of entrepreneurship are actually doing no such thing?
This realization comes at a time when much of the world is grappling with a supposedly tougher, bolder China, one that locks up its dissidents–or simply makes them disappear and fiercely defends its interests with virulent disdain for foreign criticism.
The revival of Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur recently sold out at the Royal Opera – proof that there is real appetite for bold, new and supposedly "difficult" new work on the lyric stage.
Holed up at a lakeside retreat with her supposedly best friend (Katherine Waterston, Elisabeth Mosss descends into insomniac meltdown in this bold, expertly crafted psychological drama, which harks back to the likes of Bergman, Polanski and Fassbinder.
Roy Brown Jr., a car designer for Ford Motor whose signature creation, the supposedly futuristic but ultimately ill-fated Edsel, became a synonym for bold, bad ideas not long after it was introduced in 1957, died on Feb. 24 in Michigan.
Economists say that China's labor force is growing increasingly bold and that over the last year, periodic strikes in southern China — some supposedly involving global companies — have been resolved quietly or not reported in the media.
They are encouraged to make bold philanthropic commitments (failure to follow through means you are not invited back, supposedly), and the most successful philanthropists are honoured.
Technology can improve the odds, but so can bold and decisive political leadership, both from individual nations and from multilateral institutions supposedly entrusted with ensuring forward motion for freer markets.
For instance, check out the official White House website which touts Trump's "bold action" to "hold government accountable," which lists a range of ways he is supposedly cleaning up Washington.
He writes approvingly of the true Nietzschean, happily shorn of supposedly bogus ethical idealism: "You'll be free to become yourself in all your nonconformist individuality – jagged, singular, wayward, defiant, eccentric, bold, unorthodox and original".
