Friday, May 19, 2017

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best

Came across something that brought to mind Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics. Evergreen laws worth keeping in mind.

Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics
Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
His second law is probably a function of the slippery slopes I was talking about the other day.

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