The difference between a conspiracy theorist and a cock-up theorist roughly accords to that between a cynic and a sceptic. Given the nature of people and the complexity of what we attempt and like to think we can control, I think scepticism is both a more realistic and a kinder starting point for looking at our peers and what they - and we ourselves - get up to. We should therefore be sceptics not cynics, at least at first, and be more tolerant towards people than we are.
The line between scepticism and cynicism is crossed when we find those who mould human error to ignoble purpose. It's these people we should worry about, not those who we think were capable of planning things all along.
I hope some of the more honest journalists at The News of the World not only share this opinion - or something like it - but will express it too, assuming they haven't been bought off already.
All the best arguments end in beers. Argue with me.
Thursday 7 July 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
Follow my 4-step formula for making YOU richer!
Now pay attention. It's really very simple:
1. Gamble with a lot of other people's money
2. Use more of their and others' money to make up the losses
3. Pay even more of that money to the people who lost the money in the first place
4. Sack a lot of the people who didn't, and are now paying those who did
Lloyds Bank and the British Government are prepared to trust me: are YOU?
1. Gamble with a lot of other people's money
2. Use more of their and others' money to make up the losses
3. Pay even more of that money to the people who lost the money in the first place
4. Sack a lot of the people who didn't, and are now paying those who did
Lloyds Bank and the British Government are prepared to trust me: are YOU?
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