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POPSToo "Complex"?: Part II: Thomas Sowell --all the while lamenting the lack of affordable housing. So long as politicians can get some people's votes by publicly feeling their pain when it comes to housing costs, and other people's votes by restricting the building of housing, they can have a winning coalition at election time, which is their bottom line. Moral melodrama is where it's at, politically. Too "Complex"? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/05/13/too_complex
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POPSScience of Literature A sort of refraction of the two cultures debate of CP Snow. My own feeling is that the sort of excluded opposites prevalent in human cognition at all levels of social organisation are being (very slowly but highly significantly) eroded by emrging mindsets which are integrative and complex.
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POPSThe Machine Stops. So Do We. The story is quite well known, 1938 i think, heavily anthologised in school short story collections. Other examples of less than enthusiasm for new technologies in interesting article at source.
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POPSScientific consensus One must ask, "How in the world did university researchers come to conclusions that defended this outrageous affront to society?" A look back at the research concluded that the researchers adjusted their outcomes to support the theory of those paying for the research.
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POPSThe World Question for 2006 What is your dangerous idea? It is quite interesting to look back on what the people had to say at the start of the year, and see if some answers were actually turned into reality.
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