Dejaveux wrote:
In a world of Donald Trumps, Be a Dolly Parton. 

She was the best. 

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
    - credited to the "Great Gretsy"s dad

"Be brave enough to suck at something new."
     - author unknown but it's hangin' on my office wall     

"How can your dreams come true if you don't believe in them?"
   - The Handsome Highlander, SM

 Isabeau wrote:

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.   â€” Charlie Parker

"Whatever you think can't be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself."
- Thelonious Monk

A Falling Knife has No Handle

someone once posted this:

"If you ever drop your keys in a river of molten lava, let em go, because, man, they're gone."
~ Jack Handy

When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud: 'If this isn't nice, what is?'
- Kurt Vonnegut

 miamizsun wrote:

 
And preceding that:

 

“The division in politics can be summarized as between

+ Embedded, complexity-minded, multiscale/fractal localists (politics as an ecology/complex adaptive system)

+ Abstract one-dimensional universalists & monoculturalists (politics as a top-down engineering project)”

 

and this nugget sounds great (i'll read a few more times and let you know if i change my mind)

Contrary to popular belief, particularly prevalent in superficially stable (pre-pandemic) liberal democracies, government is an exercise in engineering and competence—not morality. What COVD-19 has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt is how poorly engineered many governments are—and how easily that can manifest as abject incompetence in the face of a real crisis. This is not because their employees are immoral (necessarily; they may be immoral as well). They do not have the wrong ideas about how to govern. “Don’t let millions die in a pandemic,” is an idea all would get behind. They have the wrong incentives, responsibilities, capabilities, and competencies.

Democrats need to learn experts aren’t always right

Republicans need to learn experts aren’t always wrong

Libertarians need to learn that a state can succeed

Progressives need to learn that a state can fail

~ some guy on the internet

from the El Paso Herald, Texas, September 27, 1929

sheesh

 buddy wrote:
 

Oh really?