FredZimmerman
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@prostoalex @FredZimmerman The article did nothing to persuade me that the author's particular choices reflected anything other than his particular choices. Not a good piece of analysis.
@ADefWebserver @Gaia Dempsey Agree with ADef. This is a business publication. I'd like to see some scrap of data that suggests that the thesis applies to anyone except those with highly precious ethical systems. If it's all about the observer ... I spent a few thousand dollaars at Amazon last year, and happily.
This is a really silly article: "it's all about me" journalism.
@joelammers @FredZimmerman Oh, I think we were right to intervene. No one foresaw the chain of events that would lead to Hitler. Many people have argued over the years that the strict terms at Versailles were the crucial error.
Jim Monroe -- interesting thought on Wilson. No US in WWI = even longer struggle leading to exhausted European Powers. No punitive reparations, strong German state, no Hitler. Looking back from today's perspective, fifty more years of Kaisers would have been better than twelve years of Hitlers.
If you think about it in terms of expected value: by Kennedy's own estimation, there was one chance in three that the Cuban Missile Crisis would have resulted in a nuclear war, which would have cost, what, a hundred million lives and set civilization back by a hundred years. That;s an expected value of -33M lives and -33 years of global progress. Nothing JFK did in his 3 year term could possibly balance that out.
As the result of a survey? Geez.
The future of magazines got this guy hired? It's not 1995. Time Pathfinder already failed.