More generally, I’ve been musing, the pendulum moves slowest and spends more time at extremes than in the middle, where it is moving the fastest and just passing through.
Not a model, more of an image—but it seems to apply to a lot of social, political, and religious attitudes.
Not a model, more of an image—but it seems to apply to a lot of social, political, and religious attitudes.
Well, if you watch a swinging pendulum, get in sync with it, and give it a shove just when it is moving at it's fastest rate, it will swing way, way outside its normal range of movement, and may well crash into something that it never gets near under normal conditions.
That's what Obama is doing, IMHO. He's using the power of his office to give an extra shove to everything that is in the process of going off the rails.