e-commentary

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K          “I read an essay critical of another writer who advanced an insightful analysis of many of society’s problems yet was accused of not advancing workable answers.  A prohibition on complaints devoid of answers?  I thought about it.  That may be the best one can do.  Attacking hypocrisy and dishonesty and the like that we do not like with an eye toward eliminating it while also germinating alternative workable ideas is the only course of action.”

J          “I have all the answers!  Just listen.  Yet too often my answers are underpinned by a belief that we can or must change fundamental human nature.  That is not going to happen.”

. . .

K          “The only way to bring about productive change in America is fundamentally to eliminate not internally reform every major institution.  They are fundamentally broken and must be disassembled in toto and rebuilt from the ground up.”

J          “It is the individual not the institution.  Those limits that nature fixes for human conduct will fix you.”

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[See the e-commentary at Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019), 2020: The Year Of Failed Institutions (And Individuals) (December 21, 2020), Revisiting “Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)” Four Years Later (December 11, 2023), Time To MAAA:  Make America America Again? (September 30, 2024), Fight Or Flight In The Face Of Fear? A Principled Reaction To Stand (November 30, 2020) and Trump:  MBA Not MPP:  Meat Cleaver Versus Surgeon’s Scalpel (March 3, 2025).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Eliminate and germinate

“We have met the enemy, and boy oh boy is he and she ever you and me.”  Mr. Pogo

“We have met the friend and he is us.”  Pogo

“If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry.  And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.”  Dalai Lama

What me worry.

“The whole future lies in uncertainty, live immediately.”  Seneca

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