The establishment’s approach to complexity is to control it with one global long term plan. The alternative is to foster lots of small, relatively short term efforts to adapt, ameliorate or harness unexpected developments. Establishment efforts will always be Too Big To Fail. By contrast the problem solving approach uses failure to learn and make …
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Less Spying
One of the advantages of using the standard Internet protocol site (like this) is that you don’t have to give up your information to access the site. Many social media sites are Walled Gardens that leach out your personal details. Coming here is cheaper, in lost information, than going there. Nobody takes your info at …
Many partings
The social media purge means that conflicting sides can no longer abide in the same virtual room. This does not mean a breakdown in communication, just a breakup of the network into components. Rather than being one loud space the universe will construct rooms. One of advantages of componentization is that POVs need not be …
The Return of the Censor
Our ancient future New at the Belmont Club
In case FB and Twitter go bad
This is it. And maybe better too.
Mutating talking points
Phase 2 of the pandemic narrative has arrived. New at the Belmont Club
The psychology of defiance
A review of “Last Stands”. Why men live to the end. New at the Belmont Club
A Whole New World
Giving the bureaucrats the key to everything. New at the Belmont Club
Back to the future
A future without new ideas. Just recycled old ones. New at the Belmont Club
The Lost World
You can’t recreate the past. Not even the past future. New at the Belmont Club.
Trust But Verify
Of all the quantities that have been run down over the last decade trust in the institutions is among those at the lowest level. New at the Belmont Club
Papers please
Our controlled “build back better” world. https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2020/11/23/belmont-journal-build-back-better-n1166560
A convenient problem
The vague voter. New at the Belmont Club
When to go to war
The rules have changed. https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2020/11/17/belmont-journal-when-to-go-to-war-n1154183#1th
No escape from polarization
What began with Crossfire Hurricane continues on. New at the Belmont Club
Imagining the future
Stop digging
Who won?
The Deplorables reach parity. New at the Belmont Club
The end of predictability
Did China develop the Coronavirus?
Chan is “Scientist-turned-detective | Postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard” Related: There are “key gaps” in the “interenational community’s” ability to forensically trace the origin of an outbreak and attribute motive to an accident. The limits of current technology to model, control and understand the origin of pathogens has been starkly revealed. …