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De Stijl (Neoplasticism) / Piet Mondrian/ View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers

The main problem with the “news cycle” is that it allows entertainers to control the pacing and flow of information and bury the long term study and research which decides whether or not the decisions being made are in any form useful, or are just the result of badly executed response to the perceived threat and how that threat came about.

Today’s reading while I drank my coffee and tried to wake up are near perfect examples of the short term and long term review of actions and what will be done with the information that is provided in these reviews.

https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/p/most-already-had-robust-immunity?s=r

https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/thirteen-days-of-the-cuban-missile?s=r

Truth be told, nothing will be done with this kind of information. Especially if it is true. No funding will appear to go through and validate or disprove the data presented here. Any effort to discuss the misconceptions and mistakes will expose our erstwhile leaders to the consequences of their actions and as everyone who has been paying attention for the past couple of millenia, erstwhile leaders hide behind the pathetic facade of “we were trying our best”. They also spend a lot of their time explaining how a wrong decision with a terrible outcome wasn't really what you thought it was.

Everyone seems to think that if we just have all the information up front, we will make the right decision. I have never seen such a thing occur. Decisions are made and processes cannot be foreordained by careful consideration. Especially in situations where the public is being whipped into a frenzy by the flood of opinion pieces masquerading as credible news sources.

Nope, our system is not amenable to rational decision making. Democracy really doesn’t do all that well at problems that don’t have a great solution available because actions are done to placate the mob.

But the last thing that I want is a enlightened despotism of the “qualified” Having been a part of that crowd for years