[zulgan]

reading those bills makes me feel quite hopeless, considering Gell-Mann Amnesia[1]:

  Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open
  the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s
  case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see
  the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or
  the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the
  story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet
  streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

  In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple
  errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international
  affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more
  accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the
  page, and forget what you know.

It is horrible to think the same thing probably exists in politics, and I cant even imagine what goes through in fields I don't understand.

[1]https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

[second--shift]

Have an upvote for an ET allusion.

The blog has some interesting philosophy about collective "philosophical" inertia - everything is meta-stable, until it isn't. I can't help but think and feel that we are at or nearing a maxima change - we are pushing over the edge of our current local maxima, and many things about modern society will change all at once.