A Matt Bracken Book — am reading tonight in Texas
I don’t read much fiction, but war correspondent Chuck Holton told me in Panama that Matt Bracken’s books are turning out to be amazingly accurate. And now I see Chuck was right, again. Just ten years ago, a vast majority of Americans would think you were a loon to put any stock in this…but today this has the ring of truth.
When people become exceptionally accurate, you can bet they’ve been working hard on studying, and on shaping a paradigm that:
Leaves one unsurpised
Reasonably predictive to the point you start to ask yourself why you are not in the financial business instead of the war business
Anytime you are surprised, your paradigm needs tweeking. Just keep working it. This does not take long.
Judging by Matt Bracken’s writings, I doubt any of today’s events surprise him. He already wrote about it years ago. And so it appears Bracken’s paradigm has developed to the point of being useful for accurate predictions. Making him a useful source. People who are constantly wrong, or no better than chance, are not particularly useful sources. They might be nice people but I never call them for war advice.
The more accurate our group paradigm is, the more resilient our networks. You might notice that Jewish people have a custom of robust debate. Constantly argueing. Developing predictive paradigms. Productive debate is vital for challenging ideas. To develop paradigms that are predictive and can withstand scrutiny and the merciless audit of time.
The very essence of our First Amendment. The brilliant First Amendment. I bet the Founding Fathers came to shouts and blows about the final words in the First and Second Amendments.
The First Amendment is the most important.
The Second Amendment is wingman to the First Amdendment. Without Second Amendment, we are nothing but Australia or Canada.
The time has come.
