“The Best and the Brightest”의 주요 논지는 케네디가 임명한 최고의 인재들이 거대한 실패에 책임이 있다는 것이다.

백악관 수석 전략가 스티브 배넌은 전문가라기보다는 만물박사(generalists)에 속하는 사람이다. 추상적 명석함과 능란한 언어 구사 그리고 참된 지혜는 구별되어야 한다. 그런데 배넌은 “The Best and the Brightest”에서 지적한 비극적 인물의 재현처럼 보인다.

 

Steve Bannon’s Book Club

 

By MARC TRACY

February 4, 2017

출처: 뉴욕타임즈 발췌

 

The central argument of “The Best and the Brightest” is that the very brilliance of the men whom President Kennedy appointed to his cabinet and senior advisory roles was responsible for what Mr. Halberstam, who had reported from Vietnam for The Times, saw as epic failure....

 

But the implied irony was not that the advisers weren’t impressive men (always men, usually men who had attended Harvard). They were. Rather, Mr. Halberstam’s caustic title and the nearly 700 pages that follow indict the notion that society’s smartest are necessarily the ones best equipped to tackle society’s biggest problems.

 

Mr. Bannon envisions President Trump as unencumbered by ossified default norms so he is able to push, he told The Times, “populist nation-state policies.”

 

“You’ve got these guys that are so brilliant, but they’re generalists,” said Mr. Logevall. “There’s a distinction to be drawn, he concludes, between this abstract quickness, this verbal facility, and true wisdom, which he says was missing.”......

 

Such a reading prompts thought of the more than 1,000 State Department employees who signed a dissent cable opposing the immigration executive order — an order that, according to reports, was written by Mr. Bannon and the Trump adviser Stephen Miller, neither of whom are counterterrorism experts (or lawyers).....

 

In this light, Mr. Bannon seems less a repudiation than a reincarnation of the tragic protagonists of “The Best and the Brightest.”

 

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Max Blumenthal

 

Can't wait to see liberal pundits pretend to be offended by the last three lines.

 

아래 역시 블루멘탈의 글들

 

America is one of the world's great exporters of atrocities. If you're too infantile to admit that, you don't understand why Trump is prez.

 

Trump and Trumpism is the blowback from decades of American carnage exacted on the global south. Our cruel invasions & proxy wars came home.

 

American exceptionalism - an ideology drawn from Manifest Destiny invoked to justify the deaths of millions across the globe - is dead.

 

No foreign conflict or international incident can postpone our inevitable confrontation with ourselves. Our wars are home now.

 

블루멘탈의 트윗에 대한 탈레브의 트윗

One of my yet unfulfilled predictions is to see the true left fight the pseudo-left over Trump's foreign policy.

 

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탈레브 어록

 

 

A. Tversky once said he didn't care about *artificial intelligence*,he studied *natural stupidity*.

I prefer to study *artificial stupidy*.

 

베스키는 한때 자신은 인공 지능에 관심이 없고, 스스로는 ‘자연적 어리석음’을 연구하고 있다고 밝혔다.

나는 그보다 “인공적인 어리석음”을 연구하겠다.

 

Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי‎‎; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a student of cognitive science, a collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk

 

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버클리 대학 사태에 대해

버클리 대학 사태가 보여주듯이, 좌파들은 목적이 수단을 정당화 한다는 신조를 믿고 있다. 거짓말 하는 주요 언론에 의해 무법천지의 어떤 것도 그리고 모든 것들이 정당화 되고 있다.

 

The Truth About The Berkeley Riot

by Tyler Durden

 

Feb 4, 2017 2:45 PM

 

 

Seemingly following Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", Liberal Progressive Socialists appear to believe, in a Trump world, "the ends justify the means," as evidenced by the farce in Berkeley this week. Any and everything is justified by a lying mainstream media: riots and the destruction of property, assaults on those who disagree with them, and general lawlessness - all in the name of 'virtue signaling'.