When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

LOCALISM,1 Governments come & go, bureaucrats stay. Ministries & agencies aren't run by ministers & transitory figureheads, but by a "deep local microstate" of civil servants who have been there for decades & "own" the inside. Worse: EPA was run by Monsanto, FAA by Boeing.

Economics is about making simple things more complicated, mathematics about making complicated things simpler.

Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.