Maintaining sanctions on Cuba will not force it to renounce communism just as keeping troops in Afghanistan will not produce a good result, bombing ISIS will not destroy the group, sanctioning Russia will not force out Putin, surrounding China will not intimidate it, stonewalling Iran will not stop its possible weapons program and enabling Israel to do what it wants will not bring peace to the Middle East. And you might as well also ditch the Global War on Terror and the War on Drugs, both of which are ruinously expensive and bloody failures. It almost suggests that turning nearly all current policies on their heads would be the right thing to do for 2015, but that is not likely to happen. There is too much money involved and there is always another election coming up.The Unz Review
There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See
Philip Giraldi | former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency
Former CIA officer Philip Gerald thinks that US foreign policy is 180 degrees out of whack, former Pentagon military analyst Chuck Spinney thinks that US military policy is, too, and most heterodox economists thinks that US economics policy also is reversed. How does a country get everything so wrong? Oh right, politics.
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In biology and General Systems Theory and several other disciplines this is simply known as Phenotypic Persistence or Institutional Momentum, or simple complacency.
Any period of systemic success is inevitably followed by a cycle of distributed, institutional momentum NOT countered by continued Adaptive Pressure.
Even a trained economist like Minsky eventually noted what people in other disciplines wrote as axioms over 150 years ago.
Maybe we'll someday let more of the output from those diverse disciplines leak into our K-12 education.
As it stands, the education & development of citizens - our cultural embryology - is increasingly isolated from our timeless, recurring selective pressures and emerging insights & Adaptive Responses.
Because of the scale of populations alone, that dilemma is now worse than ever before imagined.
http://dumpest.com/how-broken-the-education-system-is/
Everyone is always a victim of their own, initial success - until we're replaced by an aggregate with better habits.
We're already cultural dinosaurs, waiting out the last days of our, already ended, epoch.
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