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Category: Thoughtful Essays

Posted on September 26, 2017

National Security and Double Government – Dr. Michael Glennon

Very thoughtful analysis of the dynamics between the permanent staffers in government and the changing political leaders.  Does an excellent job not vilifying any one side, and helping to find rational drivers behind some of the different observable behaviours.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

— Carl Sagan

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

— Carl Sagan
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