This time it’s different: Difference between revisions

So the strangest thing about the “this time it's different” crowd is how closely it maps to people who believe in a [[determinist]], [[algorithm]]ic recurring, predictable universe of the kind where things definitively will ''not'' be different.

All the data piling up, pointing determinedly backward as it does, reviewing the the universe in its rear view mirror as the great agglomeration of everything that has already happened, including every fuck up, surely should tell you, if it tells you anything at all, that there will be fun cups. People will be disappointed. People will lose money. The universe will not be solved. For however measly and niggardly and useless the data is comma as a tiny proportion of all the possible data out there in the universe comic the one thing it tells us with sparkling water clarity is that things will fail every time. So isn't there you richest of irony that millenarian, futurologist, thought leaders combo and data pioneers all somehow managed to extrapolate from a catalogue of resounding failures that each forward plan for each new fangled idea is certain success.