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If a system requires saints and/or geniuses to work, it’s a bad system.
by liquidpele 2y ago
If a system requires saints and/or geniuses to work, it’s a bad system.
- lolinder 2y agoThey didn't say it requires saints and/or geniuses to follow the advice in TFA, they said that people will often twist good advice in bad directions because they have ulterior motives. This is true regardless of how difficult actually implementing the advice would be. The advice in TFA basically boils down to "don't pendulum, try to find a good middle ground between extremes", which shouldn't require either a saint or a genius.
- ShroudedNight 2y agoThe system works for him. Moreover, I expect it likely works well enough for some people. Humans are a rather heterogeneous lot. Any system of universal applicability is going to be extremely limited in its ability to provide tactical insight.
- polynomial 2y ago(Machiavelli might have something he would like to say here.)
- Tao3300 2y ago"In corrupt republics, especially in untroubled times, men of first-class ability are ousted by the envy and ambitious scheming of others."
- datadrivenangel 2y agoA system designed to be idiot-proof is eventually designed by the idiots.
- jononor 2y agoIt will also create a system of idiots. As in limit peoples development, retain the less capable and chase away the capable.