Arthur wrote:
> Many years ago when I was in NY I did some consulting work with the
> Hudson Institute and Herman Kahn. He was strange but smart. One of
> his one liners was: When he came to a new situation he found out who
> the local paranoid was. He would ask that person: Is there anything
> going on to worry about. If the answer was yes, he checked it out.
> If the answer was no, then he would begin to do some policy work.
I'll have to remember that. The "paranoid" may just be a person who's
better at detecting patterns in the chaos of the world around him. [1]
If he detects and mentions a threatening pattern then he might easily
be branded a paranoid if he can't articulate the threat clearly or
precisely.
> In this context it is worth listening to Stockman.
I'm inclined to agree, albeit with reservations about Free Market
eschatology to which, AFAICS, he remains devoted.
- Mike
[1] See John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_:
Rather nebbishy protagonist:
My Special aptitude is____what, sir?
Colonel, at Military Intelligence induction site:
Pattiducking! Pattern generation by deductive and inductive
reasoning.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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