…but realism is hard. Isn’t everyone familiar with the investment flacksters’ line that “past performance is no guarantee of future returns?” Aren’t we all aware that trends become more dubious the longer they continue? Haven’t we seen enough trends implode “unexpectedly,” and all too often ruinously? The quotes at the opening of …
Category: idealism and idealists
Jan 30 2024
It’s Been Tried Before
Several times, really…and it hasn’t worked, ever: Days after closing a deal with Albania to hold part of the migrant flood there while awaiting asylum processing, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is trying to limit the number of arrivals in the first place, by a new partnership with Africa. She unveiled a …
Jul 22 2023
Things Predators Like
Predators of all sorts will concentrate where the prey is fattest. — Arne Stromberg, Gallatin University Robert A. Heinlein promoted this concept of a human trichotomy: …and no third category. What follows from that partition is an even simpler dichotomy: You’re either a Maker or a Predator. Anyone who doesn’t get …
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