Yet there are countless examples of where society is ignoring results. From the War On Drugs, to Green Laws, to how we handled the pandemic - Let's change our culture to be results-driven once again.
Here's an idea, what if they are getting exactly the results they want? They want you sick and reliant on pharmaceuticals, they prefer lifelong medical patients over healthy individuals, they want you to be a slave to the system, they want to rob you of your independence and call it freedom. They speak about "good intentions," but they know their policies will inevitably fail and cause suffering, they knew shutting down everything during Covid would cripple small businesses and create a massive transfer of wealth to the upper classes. They knew the isolation would exacerbate our culture wars. "You will own nothing and you will be happy." You will be "happy" because you will be heavily medicated, you will be convinced that you are incapable of taking care of your own household, your own body, your own children (did you know CPS can take your kid if you don't agree to them getting gender-affirming care?). We are the livestock for the 1%. The unending wars destroy anyone with heroic intentions, the politics are intentional smoke and mirrors, popularity contests, whoever wins the policies they want that take advantage of you will still go into place whether they're the blue or red flavor, it's still the same kool-aid. The "war on drugs" created more drug addicts than ever--wasn't that their intention? Sounds like a lot of profit was made, even after the lawsuits. I hate to be so bleak, somebody please convince me otherwise, give me a shred of hope that this isn't the road we are going down, or else let's stick together and fight....
All of these "wars" have done nothing for people but cause damage. The only winners of these "wars" are the for profit corporations and their corporate prostitutes.
The basic problem is that our culture values feelings more than logic. Like you said, most government policies are designed to “feel good”. The fact that they produce terrible results isn’t really important.
So how do we fix this? We have to give individuals a tool to *prove to themselves* that feelings don’t matter. There are a lot of possible ways to do this, but my personal favorite is the barbell. Our society would be much more objective and results driven if everyone engaged in objective and results driven physical training.
Thomas Sowell was an advocate for results driven policy. Most govt programs are feel good driven.
Seems like such a basic concept we should be all in favor of.
As far as governments are concerned, if you accept the idea that they are all corrupt, the results are what they intended.
True!
This seems like the way we can easily root out the corruption. Anyone openly not in favor of making policy based on results is likely corrupt.
Love this. Bears repeating ...a LOT. Most people dont think they FEEL. Feelings are not brains.
People with brains know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I agree. "Evidence-based medicine" has become a meaningless marketing phrase.
Here's an idea, what if they are getting exactly the results they want? They want you sick and reliant on pharmaceuticals, they prefer lifelong medical patients over healthy individuals, they want you to be a slave to the system, they want to rob you of your independence and call it freedom. They speak about "good intentions," but they know their policies will inevitably fail and cause suffering, they knew shutting down everything during Covid would cripple small businesses and create a massive transfer of wealth to the upper classes. They knew the isolation would exacerbate our culture wars. "You will own nothing and you will be happy." You will be "happy" because you will be heavily medicated, you will be convinced that you are incapable of taking care of your own household, your own body, your own children (did you know CPS can take your kid if you don't agree to them getting gender-affirming care?). We are the livestock for the 1%. The unending wars destroy anyone with heroic intentions, the politics are intentional smoke and mirrors, popularity contests, whoever wins the policies they want that take advantage of you will still go into place whether they're the blue or red flavor, it's still the same kool-aid. The "war on drugs" created more drug addicts than ever--wasn't that their intention? Sounds like a lot of profit was made, even after the lawsuits. I hate to be so bleak, somebody please convince me otherwise, give me a shred of hope that this isn't the road we are going down, or else let's stick together and fight....
All of these "wars" have done nothing for people but cause damage. The only winners of these "wars" are the for profit corporations and their corporate prostitutes.
The basic problem is that our culture values feelings more than logic. Like you said, most government policies are designed to “feel good”. The fact that they produce terrible results isn’t really important.
So how do we fix this? We have to give individuals a tool to *prove to themselves* that feelings don’t matter. There are a lot of possible ways to do this, but my personal favorite is the barbell. Our society would be much more objective and results driven if everyone engaged in objective and results driven physical training.
https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/squat-press-deadlift-feelings
Good Intentions = Unintended Consequences.
Agreed 100%. Climate will be the big ticket control from the top. I vote for regenerative solutions: https://open.substack.com/pub/regeneration/p/were-all-part-of-the-same-factory?r=el1xl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
You make an excellent point! However, I would ask are these really good intentions or evil political ideologies?
The latter, dressed up as the former.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jerm-warfare/id1475255493?i=1000581768223