There are times when a
joke can seem to be other than a joke when we survey how and why things are
happening. This item from The Onion is an uncomfortable truth about human
nature and motivation. You make not like
it but it gives pause for thought.
Taken together with the
recent Horizon programme on the psychology of decision making the thoughts may
not be happy ones. The programme claimed
that research with Rhesus Monkeys demonstrated that we were prone to making the
same mistakes that they did.
Our ability to
relentlessly make mistakes and wrong choices is said to be a salient feature of
all our lives. When applied to those at
the top or at critical points in our ruling classes and societies it is little
surprise that so much goes badly wrong.
It is surprising that some
things go right. In a global all
connected world all our mistakes begin to impact on each other. It looks like we are getting better and
better at making bigger and bigger mistakes.
SNAFU Rules OK. Why don't we just leave it to the chimp's? They may do rather better than we do.
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