JTBG,works for me. Just The Best Guess. (Leftist ideology in example) It’s the absolute nature of what is True that sort of side tracks JTB. If it’s failed once it will again. Just The Best Guess, can fail and not take the notion of truth down with itself. How many lives have been lost wagering on that one percent? Justifiable is fallible, itself as thought. We really give it a good world effort but it’s a metric we get closer to in half increments. I think admitting it is just a guess provides more prudence. The risk isn’t so easy to take.
Problem is the more brazen we become with the Idea of JTB the closer we take ourselves to the brink of failure. Ninety nine percent and some bad decisions caused Chernobyl and throw in an earthquake and resulting tsunami and you end up with Fukushima with an extra point one percent for experience.You let a right wing enterprise like Duke Energy contain coal ash behind a dike and a flood comes and the next thing you know there is an unexplained high rate of cancer in the neighborhood affected. I don’t care if it’s point .00001, its a guess and the world’s ecosystems take it in the shorts. It gives anyone who has it, a false sense of security, we’re on the side of justifiably true, now lets go rape a planets viability for life. What are the odds? Look at the net potential for profit. And that is just the environmental impact, think of the social impact as well. Deprive people who have their neck in it up to here, any sort of security in old age, because it’s profitable to a few?
How many industrial fuck ups that keep growing larger and larger in impact can we, the right and the left endure. How smart is that? Even if you consider yourself on the right, chances are good that you’re not. Lions do kill their own kind if they aren’t direct offspring. You related to anyone in power from the right? The left sees progeny in general, less of an issue then life itself.
You haven’t answered the question of direction.
I sort of see it as… on the right you have this notion of “every man for himself”, fuck you if I can figure out how I can take it I will. Lions, hyenas and wolves are pretty much this sort of predator. On the left you have the “all for one and one for all sort” Stock up, save up for when the weather turns inclement. We can all get through this. The lefts creativity is communal property for the common good, the rights creativity is how it can be leveraged for the highest individual advantage. It sort of swings the same way politically. The right is… “don’t tell me what to do” and the left is “if anyone has a good idea I’m game, and if no one has, what about this idea.” Their are just too many examples of the pattern to deny, unless you are brainwashed.
Like the example of nature a well balanced ecosystem has them in a proportion that involves some checks and balances. Perhaps those very checks and balances are already in play. Your notion of brainwashed is just the system coming up against some really unbalanced circumstances and trying to put some checks on those circumstances. The sheep are getting smarter, cause the predators are getting just way too hungry for a food that can not sustain them.
If I’m wrong about what you consider the left? Chime on it. You’ve been painfully inarticulate besides “its the left”. Another thought is 90% of the population of sheep are just getting fed up with the lions hunger. A better ratio would be 98% and the predators got no right messing up our grazing land. it’s the American people with the carrot of you too can become a predator, just don’t ask too many questions how were going to do it, dangled on a stick sort of brainwashing that is taking place. A sort of farm, all nice and contained for slaughter. And the the 90% of which you speak are seeing it coming.
It involves a much smaller set of people that requires brainwashing. Optimal, as you say.
Repeating patterns. Not seeing them? You’re too close. You’re not alone, my best guess is Trump doesn’t see them either. If he does it’s like Pavlov’s dog. Come on… ring the bell, ring it, ring it, ring it. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
Can sheep graze the planet bare? Hell yes. We need predators to cull the heard. I just feel rather uncomfortable with the thought that wolves can come to the thought that they own the herd. Do you really lean that far right? Or are you a sheep is wolves clothing, or a wolf is sheep’s clothing?
The real right, the one percent you keep apologizing for, appreciates your efforts, Predators on the planet actually account for a fairly low percentage of life that exists on the planet. You drive them to the point of extinction the right does, with it’s ideology and we start to think of the role of predators in an ecosystem. But wolves and lions compete with man. Where is that going to end in a right leaning economy?
The right is like, I don’t need no stinking lion competing with me? And it is there where your ideas of JTB’s ends as short sighted.