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Cassandra was always right, and always powerless to change anything. If you are speculating (not investing) and nothing more, then sure, you only want to see wh
by darkerside 5y ago
Cassandra was always right, and always powerless to change anything. If you are speculating (not investing) and nothing more, then sure, you only want to see what is.
If you're creating, executing, advising, or actually investing, anchoring on what "is" risks losing to competition that suffers no such limitations.
If you believe you have no power to change things, then it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe you can change things, you might be wrong. Which game you prefer to play is up to you.
- temp8964 5y agoNo body blankly believes nothing can be changed, or believes everything can be changed. The two extremes are both obviously wrong. It's just important to understand what you can change and what you can't. So the starting point is about understanding how the world works, not just daydreaming.
- darkerside 5y agoIf you're understanding is based on what's been observed before, you will never progress beyond it. During the Enlightenment, all this science stuff looked extremely stupid. If people didn't persevere through the cynicism, we wouldn't have advanced the way we did.
- temp8964 5y ago> During the Enlightenment, all this science stuff looked extremely stupid Lol. Where did you read your history of science? Totally bizarre.
- darkerside 5y agoHmm. It seems quite obvious that, to the common person in that time period, science would have seemed like an irrelevant waste of time. Some cursory googling doesn't reveal much either way. I'm not super confident in my speculation, it just seems the most likely to me. What makes you so confident?
- temp8964 5y agoWhat makes me so confident? I studied history of science and philosophy of science seriously. Like reading books and papers across several classes. Old school.