Friendship is a bond whose strength is measured in trust. ------------------------- Modern policy and justification. When one side advocates some policy which works out poorly, there is never an admission is was wrong, or flawed, or anything. The most common excuses are these: we didn’t go far enough; we didn’t spend enough; we didn’t message enough. The policy, however, is right! The policy belief is paramount. Some sort of decision commitment is involved, having little to do with outcomes. Belief, you may agree, is a lot easier a sell than logic or evidence. It closes doors; it relaxes intellectual demand; it commands single-mindedness of thought. We seem to have left behind the rational age of Voltaire, Laplace, and Newton, and entered into another universe where truth is decided beforehand. Huxley said it best as paraphrased in, “We live in a brave new world.” The ability to accept that a solution or method fails is essential for progress, personal, polit
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