"At the heart of the social vision prevalent, among contemporary intellectuals, is the belief that there are problems.....and there are solutions."
-- Thomas Sowell
This is one of those forty-odd quotes that I tend to rank among wise thoughts, and being fairly important to remember.....when in a moment of chaos or turmoil.
Germans do this a lot in public forums....insisting that for every problem, there's going to be a solution. If you sat and asked a few questions....you'd find that there might be well over a hundred solutions to a problem, then realize that each one had a financial cost/pain, a fairly decent risk of failure, and on the complications scale....represent a 'wreck' in slow-motion.
A couple of years ago....I watched some TV chat where there was an 'insisted' problem, and they had one single solution....which seemed to involve re-distributing cash-flow. In the mind of the moderator....there was no cheap or zero-thrills solution.
Over the past hundred-odd days, with all the natural gas and escalating prices chatter going on....I see a good bit of intellectual wisdom dispersed, and it begs questions over how effective the solution might really be.
This becoming a problem on my skeptical 'meter'? Well....yeah. I can't readily trust the 'problem' or the 'solution'.....when laid out.
The public waking up and asking the same questions? You see this almost daily now.....with trust lacking more and more.
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