Occam’s Razor
The law of Parsimony or less is more — Dizzy Gillispie, two takes on knowing how to parse intelligently has become a thought process largely ignored as it’s easy to complexify but hard to simplfiy, something Miles and Orwell understood to the nth degree. Why talk about this? Well, consider two ideas to geoengineer earth by reducing sunlight to ameliorate GW, the first requiring massive injections of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to do the deed and second, The Dust Bunny, which envisions the placing of huge cannons on the moon designed to blast moon material into space in order to create a ring of dust around the planet to do the same thing. Needless to say, the geniuses thinking up these “solutions” never consider the inevitable blowback such operations would entail like less food production caused by the lack of sunlight or … As Oxford physics professor Raymond Pierrehumbert told CNN, even initial geoengineering success could have its drawbacks if not maintained because it could, as he put it, result in a “termination shock” effect, releasing even more pent-up ill effects that have been “waiting in the wings, ready to slap the Earth in the face.”
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This art of assume also applies to the placing of Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh under house arrest in 1953, courtesy the CIA, in order to enable England to get Iran’s oil while installing the Shah to run things favoring US hegemony over that country. Well, we know how that turned out, right?
Or how about Vietnam, the misadventure for the ages, based on a lie like that of WMDs in Iraq under W or the undertaking of the cosmic iniative of democratizing Afghanistan and defeating the Taliban while ignoring the fact said country was and is the graveyard of empires beginning with the ouster of Alexander the Great in 328BC.
History never repeats but it does rhyme as per the great Mark Twain.
And so it goes. — K. Vonnegut
