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Complex systems usually try to save themselves by doing the same they
have been doing badly all along -- only harder. This is because the
salvation of the system is implicitly considered far more important than
the solution of any problems causing the system to fail.
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Everything that television does becomes television rather than what it
starts out to be. - Sam Smith
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The media has repeatedly misled and lied to the American people
concerning the practicality of the war on terror and has kept from its
pages and airwaves doubts on this score. In this it has behaved with a
reckless negligence which, if committed behind the wheel of a car, would
be considered criminal. The only way out of our crisis is to reduce the
anger of the most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the
least rational. Yet we have done nothing since September 11 to improve
relations with the Arab and Muslim world, and we have done nothing to
make Israel do likewise. Instead we have persisted in constructing an
illusion of security and a fantasy of strength and alienating
aggressiveness that can be penetrated at any moment by a sufficiently
determined though not particularly skilled adversary. We do not have
homeland security, only a homeland hubris that may prove, in the end, to
have been our real enemy. -Sam Smith
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Complex systems usually try to save themselves by doing the same they
have been doing badly all along -- only harder. This is because the
salvation of the system is implicitly considered far more important than
the solution of any problems causing the system to fail.
[]
Everything that television does becomes television rather than what it
starts out to be. - Sam Smith
[]
The media has repeatedly misled and lied to the American people
concerning the practicality of the war on terror and has kept from its
pages and airwaves doubts on this score. In this it has behaved with a
reckless negligence which, if committed behind the wheel of a car, would
be considered criminal. The only way out of our crisis is to reduce the
anger of the most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the
least rational. Yet we have done nothing since September 11 to improve
relations with the Arab and Muslim world, and we have done nothing to
make Israel do likewise. Instead we have persisted in constructing an
illusion of security and a fantasy of strength and alienating
aggressiveness that can be penetrated at any moment by a sufficiently
determined though not particularly skilled adversary. We do not have
homeland security, only a homeland hubris that may prove, in the end, to
have been our real enemy. -Sam Smith
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