Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Beware............................


     Therefore, in a system of multiple models across multiple disciplines, I should add as an extra rule that you should be very wary of heavy ideology.

     You can have heavy ideology in favor of accuracy, diligence, and objectivity.   But a heavy ideology that makes you absolutely sure that the minimum wage should be raised or that it shouldn't - and it's kind of a holy construct where you know you're right - makes you a bit nuts.

     This is a very complicated system.  And life is one damn relatedness after another.  It's all right to think that, on balance, you suspect that civilization is better if it lowers the minimum wage or raises it.  Either position is OK.  But being totally sure on issues like that with a strong, violent ideology, in my opinion, turns you into a lousy thinker.  So beware of ideology-based mental misfunctions.

-Charles T. Munger,  Poor Charlie's Almanack:  The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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