"There will be a price for this. There is always a price. The first law of thermodynamics is universal."
Yup. TANSTAAFL. But it's human nature to keep hoping for exceptions to that. *sigh*
"Allying with Stalin was seen as *necessary* to win WWII. Allying with Hussein was seen as a means to the end of opposing the advance of Communism. And on and on it goes."
A light bulb just went on. This is like introducing a non-native organism to deal with an environmental problem, having unintended consequences bite you in the ass, bringing in a non-native predator to deal with the first non-native organism, discovering a new round of unintended consequences ... and now I've got a song stuck in my head. "I don't know why she swallowed the fly. I think she'll die."
I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection between the environmental and political manifistations of this particular error until now.
"Why is anyone ever surprised by this phenomenon?"
We may solve a lot of other problems if we answer that one question.
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Yup. TANSTAAFL. But it's human nature to keep hoping for exceptions to that. *sigh*
"Allying with Stalin was seen as *necessary* to win WWII. Allying with Hussein was seen as a means to the end of opposing the advance of Communism. And on and on it goes."
A light bulb just went on. This is like introducing a non-native organism to deal with an environmental problem, having unintended consequences bite you in the ass, bringing in a non-native predator to deal with the first non-native organism, discovering a new round of unintended consequences ... and now I've got a song stuck in my head. "I don't know why she swallowed the fly. I think she'll die."
I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection between the environmental and political manifistations of this particular error until now.
"Why is anyone ever surprised by this phenomenon?"
We may solve a lot of other problems if we answer that one question.