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It seems that humans are always barreling to the next crisis with no strategic plans in mind. We are always making it up as we go along.
by kiba 6y ago
It seems that humans are always barreling to the next crisis with no strategic plans in mind. We are always making it up as we go along.
- oblio 6y agoWell, except for some extreme cases (climate change being one), it seems to work. Strategic plans involve some rigidity, so they're not without drawbacks.
- hh3k0 6y ago> Well, except for some extreme cases (climate change being one), it seems to work. Does it, though? It sure seems to me as if our solutions tend to introduce ever more drastic problems which dwarf the original problem.
- oblio 6y agoWhat are our solutions, though? We're attacking this problem from a million disjointed fronts. The blessing (and peril) of not following a rigid strategy. Though I think we should have some red lines, some big picture initiatives that do need to be planned at a higher level. The US dropped the ball on this for a while, for example.
- luxuryballs 6y agoSomewhere I heard it said that if you give a government emergency powers you will find that there are more often emergencies, or something like that.
- pessimizer 6y agoThat may just be how it looks to people who are not involved in the decisionmaking, except as observers of what has been reported to them by actual decisionmakers. The consensus reality agreed to between major media outlets may well be an epiphenomenon.