"A flip-flop should be no handicap."

Richard Dawkins points to his own flip-flop on Amotz Zahavi's Handicap Principle [*] and how it fits in with his own theory in The Selfish Gene. The point is not that anyone has a handicap, but that those that do, must be actually more successful to survive or are selected by a mate (or voter) for that reason. However, the traslation from the math to the biology to the sociology has a handicap. The math. Most people will follow a meme whether they follow the math or the meme. Meaning they will follow a leader whether they know the meme or they are just mean. But flip-flopping on a meme, does not mean the results will be progess.

If this has not been followed I will leave it anyway. Politics is not science, science not a religion, and religion is not faith. Faith is another story.[**] But cost is a reality that can't always be calculated and takes more than economists.

[*] last article on link
[**] first article
[also see comments on Richard Dawkins to the left in first link]

BTW: flip-flop is no joke in physics, let alone other fields -- not to mention nuance

[Follow-up: Changing my religion. Roger Bingham (second-to-last article)and The Light Side of Locality (third article). Or Hubris and Humor?]

Re: Orient / Balance of Powers

UNtill* then,

8 Reasons Democrats Should Refuse a Shutdown “Grand Bargain”

Page Theory.

*pun on field type-O[!]
Speaking of fields or math.(77/22= 213/69?)
 

Killing Fields of Dreams

Sorting the Reckless from the Feckless!
Pardon Moi.* 
Reckless the Sorting, Shrum the Frum!

*hyper-anachronistic
Herman Newtics? Or walking the plank !

*Knot too double aster risked but... C-labelism 'n update.
OW!  Not our grandfather's Democrat!

[5-16-13 Mixed MetaLede**:  Nixonian Baseball Field*** Theory]

** technically "heading"
*** Ctrl F(b.s.) get+over+it
Ctrl F(b.s. ) hoist + picard
[Politics Nation ? ]
C-Ctrl2: A to F? I G or e.g. ?

WORDS COUNTING

[Original draft--for submission to New York Times: September 16th, 2004]

The narrow-mindedness or lack thereof from David Brooks in "Ruling Class War" must be admired. He separates Bush and Kerry supporters into spreadsheet people and paragraph people and concludes in pundit fashion, "Class traitors of the world, Unite! You have nothing to lose but friends—and a world to gain". He appears uncomfortable with the irony that his profession is in the paragraph world and his hope lays in number crunching friends and gain. That may be why I find it hard to see his point, being more balanced.

At least he concedes there are those that don’t fit his theory, but it is ironic as well that he focuses on CEO’s and accountants that have some independence and freedom from words and education and avoided a conclusion that the world is more than just numbers. Besides his missing a few professions, I’m just wondering how fields that specialize in removing tongue from cheek or examining heads contribute. He should wonder if he is in the wrong profession or party. Hopefully I have not been too conservative with my words, but I cannot prove that education has something to do with all this 2.

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Roger Larson