Would any American object to bringing Roosevelt back from the dead? The political roster of today is a far cry from yesteryear's.
Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]
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#12Crazy to think USA went from “Cabinet of scientific minds” to “LinkedIn All-Stars of political loyalty and TV appearances.”
It's a common mistake to think that things won't change, that the current state will persist forever. I will turn this around and ask why you thought a focus on science was going to be durable.
Stop with the trite and easily dismantled false dichotomies.
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#14This is the document that the Trump regime is using for toilet paper now.
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#15Nice to see this posted here. With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exactly how to take the big bets that has served the US militarily and economically since then. Here’s some of my (slightly rambling) notes from reading the Endless Frontier with this ai…
Well Europe being heavily bombed set things back a decade or two.
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#16Nice to see this posted here. With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exactly how to take the big bets that has served the US militarily and economically since then. Here’s some of my (slightly rambling) notes from reading the Endless Frontier with this ai…
This is interesting. Cab you tell us more about the kind of contribution from other like-minded people you are looking for?
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#17Would any American object to bringing Roosevelt back from the dead? The political roster of today is a far cry from yesteryear's.
Young Roosevelt, maybe. Old Roosevelt, no. His last years weren't good.
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#18Crazy to think USA went from “Cabinet of scientific minds” to “LinkedIn All-Stars of political loyalty and TV appearances.”
The legacy of the generation that survived WWII was:
- Big domestic policy mistakes cause bad outcomes, like the Great Depression.
- Big foreign policy mistakes cause extremely bad outcomes, like WWI and WWII.
- Big command mistakes in the military get people killed.
This led to a mindset that the people picked to be in charge had to be very competent. Or else. Almost all Cabinet members passed the competence filter until the Greatest Generation died off.
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Generated comments are not allowed on HN. Would you please stop posting these and please stop creating multiple accounts? I'm afraid you've crossed well over the line into abusing HN, and I assume it's not your intent to do so.
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#20Nice to see this posted here. With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exactly how to take the big bets that has served the US militarily and economically since then. Here’s some of my (slightly rambling) notes from reading the Endless Frontier with this ai…
I assume you’ve read or watched the Secret History of Silicon Valley?