A poorly functioning government is not inert. Instead, it lives the life of a pinball. The life of a pinball can feel quite busy.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
On the Global Perpective Inspired by Spaceflight
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
— Edgar D. Mitchell, astronaut
On Direct Communication
“What I don’t like about Washington is people do not let you know how they feel,” he said. “They’re very nice to your face and then they take a shiv or a machete and they stab it in your back. I don’t like it. I’m a Wall Street guy, and I’m more of a front-stabbing person, and I’d rather tell people directly how I feel about them than this sort of nonsense.”
On The Upside-Down Smile Emoji
Wheeee, life is a horrible hall of mirrors and I am powerless to do anything but smile about it.