Corollary to Moore's Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We unwittingly amplify commonalities with friends, dissimilarities with strangers, and contrasts with enemies.

Professor Karl Pearson... devised the first test of nonrandomness... He examined millions of runs of what was called a Monte Carlo (the old name for a roulette wheel)... He discovered... the runs were not purely random. ...Philosophers of statistics call this the reference case problem to explain that there is no true attainable randomness in practice, only in theory.

The real difference in politics isn't the "right" vs "left" gradation but rather "Greek" vs "Roman". Greek = puts theory above practice. Roman= puts practice above theory. Be Roman. Now.