Posted on 08/20/2015 8:50:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
How Systems Get Tired
by Richard Fernandez
August 19, 2015 - 2:42 am
One of the arguments for the impossibility of an event is lack of previous failure. “It never failed before and thus can never fail ever”. The Washington Post’s editorial board invokes a variant of this logic to refute Donald Trump’s border policy, arguing there are so many illegal immigrants it is too expensive to deport them all, leaving no alternative but to accept more. Besides, America is still standing so what can be the harm in admitting more? The same argument is used to justify other policies. For example the Fed can continue to print trillions because it always has.
The contrary view is embodied in Stein’s Law, named after the economist Herbert Stein, who said ”if something cannot go on forever, it will stop”. Following Stein’s Law, neither unbridled illegal immigration nor money printing can continue indefinitely. Each of these projects has used up a margin and will eventually reach a point where something unprecedented — something which has never happened before — occurs
Social engineers are members of the first school of thought and are typically surprised by unprecedented events viewing them as perverse. For example the Washington Post notes the shock of rising and virulent xenophobia in Germany, something heretofore thought to be extinct since the end of the Second World War. ”Germany unnerved by scores of xenophobic attacks against refugees.” The past should continue indefinitely. Failure can be due only to wreckers.
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Humans are natural central planners. Each is a little godling waiting to force you to live as they see fit. Never give them the chance.
Ghetto is a mentality and our government schools teach it as if it is a superior way of life.
Like black on white rapes and other crimes?
Chicago cops shoot a black about every other day here. No rioting, yet.
Excellent article.
Like exactly that.
I was walking by a monitor with CNN when some talking heads were saying how the pubbies trying to climb on board Trump's agenda was really good for the democrats because while they were off pursuing distractions, the democrats were talking about the issues that are of concern to the American people.
Like, WOW!
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