Brews you can use

Somewhat apropos of the previous rant, from Karl Deutsch, via Mark A. R. Kleiman’s memory:

Since power means being able to conform the world to your ideas, while learning consists of conforming your ideas to the world, power is the ability not to learn from your mistakes.

Words to live by, or at least not-go-crazy by. It can help explain why the people who “call the shots” can behave as if they were from a different planet sometimes. If they’re not learners (philosopher kings?), then they are from another planet as far as they’re concerned.

The good news, this isn’t a sustainable situation over the long term. The bad news is, real world observations put the upper bound of “long term” in the multi-millenia range.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 at 11:07 pm and is filed under Farts & Seizure.