08-22-2017, 04:24 PM
(08-22-2017, 07:16 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The world has a surplus of high ego low rationality actors. No area of the world has a monopoly on them. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't invite Trump to move in.
We also have no shortage of high partisan pundits cherry picking reality to advocate extreme world views.
Saddam thought it was clever to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. Bush 43 thought it clever to remove Saddam, to destabilize the middle east. Kim thinks it clever to work up nukes. Don't think you understand the high ego highly partisan mind, or count on folks to think like you do. It is in many ways amusing to watch extreme partisans passing in the night, but such views should not be mistaken for reality.
I think you hit it in your first sentence. These are not partisans, since a partisan is focused on a party. These are egotists ... GWB included to a lesser extent. Actions and methods needed to deal with partisans and egotists are very different.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.