Each Firm Held Its Rope; One By

As Idiotic As Optimism Can Sometimes Seem, It Has A Weird Habit Of Paying Off.

Donald Trump Got Almost 3 Million Fewer Votes Than Hillary Clinton! He Happened To Get More In Some Of The Right Places. It Was Just Like One Of Those Things Where A Stock Going Up And People Impose A False Sense Of Order On It. It's Really More Intellectually Honestly Viewed As A Disorderly Process.

A Tourist Can't Help But Have A Distorted Opinion Of A Place: He Meets Unrepresentative People, Has Unrepresentative Experiences, And Runs Around Imposing Upon The Place The Fantastic Mental Pictures He Had In His Head When He Got There.

Here Was A Strange But True Fact: The Closer You Were To The Market, The Harder It Was To Perceive Its Folly.

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.