Never Confuse Activity With ProgressdrsulakJanuary 29 2017, 17:06:03 UTC
It's what we have right now. Lots of activity.
But the progress part is hard to do since most worthwhile tasks are difficult; the temptation is very strong to let (or want) activity occur without oversight when someone says they have a faster, cheaper, or easier answer.
If it was easy, it would have already been done.
As for a Josef Stalin tie in, there are people who still pine for him. Why? Because he got things done and the world trembled before him.
Yes, activity is easy, but progress is not, and the failure mode of activity without oversight is severe.
Re: Never Confuse Activity With ProgressrmeidakingJanuary 30 2017, 13:07:16 UTC
I am struggling to think of a totalitarian regime that was stopped internally without a civil war. Or stopped without a war, period. I'm not coming up with one. I worry that our chance to save democracy in the USA ended on January 21, that we gave the neo-Totalitarian White Guys too much power, and by the time we figure out how to neutralize that, they will have neutralized us.
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But the progress part is hard to do since most worthwhile tasks are difficult; the temptation is very strong to let (or want) activity occur without oversight when someone says they have a faster, cheaper, or easier answer.
If it was easy, it would have already been done.
As for a Josef Stalin tie in, there are people who still pine for him. Why? Because he got things done and the world trembled before him.
Yes, activity is easy, but progress is not, and the failure mode of activity without oversight is severe.
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If we wait for oversight, we're doomed.
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