Persy writes:
The second lesson is that when solving problems you shouldn't adopt solutions that make the problem worse.*
This is an incredibly powerful statement!
This single sentence sums up the problems our country and OUR government have encountered since President Braindead Reagan joined forces with the evangelicals. Over the past 40 years that antigovernment movement has morphed into an obstructive, anti-fact, anti-science, pro-really-stupid-conspiracy-nonsense, anti-future cult, that is intentionally mismanaging all the agencies of OUR government,
THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT to skim off all their budgets and misdirect their funding.
The so-called conservatives are wholly owned and controlled by the ultrawealthy and they have spent 40 years spreading fear of various bullshit conspiracy theories about
"liberals," and are continuing to do everything they can to make every single issue into a problem and to make ever problem worse.
I ran across this about an older more accurate description of
"liberals."
quote
Including the older-deeper meaning of 'liberalism.' Which is unleashing the fantastically fecund creativity of flat-fair-just-confident and fully-informed Competition...
—David Brin
Actually, this is Brin in a broader context critiquing (on Facebook) an interview with
Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress - The tech billionaire discusses Silicon Valley, Christianity and apocalypse
BY MARY HARRINGTONquote
See a fawning profile of Peter Thiel’s eagerly dyspeptic (and trivially refuted) incantations that ‘liberalism has failed,’ while wallowing in its protection and myriad benefits. I so hope the author of this piece misinterprets almost everything, in almost every paragraph because… wow.
The core take-away - revealed in his hostility to Universities and support of the "neo-monarchist" movement - is rejection of all aspects of our civilization that led to himself! Including the older-deeper meaning of 'liberalism.' Which is unleashing the fantastically fecund creativity of flat-fair-just-confident and fully-informed Competition...
That c-word was promoted by the First Liberal - Adam Smith - and it is never, ever mentioned nowadays by the gone-mad right. That core endeavor - of transparent/flat/fair competitive creativity - requires maximizing the number of skilled, confident competitors... (um, duh?)... as F. Hayek called-for. Which, in turn, necessitates social justice and mass education and especially freedom.
Sure, our Smithian reversal of 6000 years of oligarchic/racist hierarchy has been imperfect, improving with grinding slowness, overcoming troglodytic resistance every generation. But its effective outcomes (including Thiel himself) outweigh those of ALL other societies across those sixty+ centuries... combined.
Let's be clear. Thiel's proposed program of to-the-hilt technological progress toward personal, organic immortality must be advanced by the very fact-professions, researchers, scientists and university nerds who almost universally despise everything about the oligarchic putsch to restore feudalism that PT passionately pursues.
Nor is there a prepper citadel anywhere on the planet whose location isn't known by many in that clade, down to the centimeter. Perhaps (just a suggestion, m'lord) rejoining the Enlightenment might be the better choice.
—David Brin
[end of rant]
*May I use your quote, please?
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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