Something I've been pondering for a while now is the intersection of human speech, public speech, and public desire for consistency and accuracy. Many if not m

Something I've been pondering for a while now is the intersection of human speech, public speech, and public desire for consistency and accuracy. Many if not most people develop opinions about the world by trying them on for size and engaging with it. In our daily personal life, people might say something dumb in the morning and change their mind by dinner. Despite this being fundamentally human behavior, few things outrage the public as much as public characters who are inconsistent. CEOs and politicians especially are expected to never change their minds or positions, even on multi decade timescales.