THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004:
"Deutsch's Law"
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

Corollary #1

Inherently insoluble problems are inherently boring.

Corollary #2

In the long run, the distinction between what is interesting and what is boring is not a matter of subjective taste but an objective fact.

Corollary #3

The problem of why every problem that is interesting is also soluble, is soluble."

Mexicans grow it, white people sell it, everyone eats it.

RPG-Blog experiment 1B

One day you come across this entry on Kevin's Blog. What do you do?

Five reasons to organize blog posts into numbered list form

1) Self-referential entries easily suggest themselves.

2) You don't have to write as much because every point is distilled into a single sentence. Usually.

3) Not enough counting going on in American society.

4) It's quick.

5) Actually, there are only 4 reasons; this is an excuse.

If you don't like politics, go away.

It looks like it will be a bleak four years. I can only hope that the anger and frustration some of us feel will serve to inspire some creative acts. Maybe the penultimate twenty first century war novel is about to be written...or maybe it will require the commission of yet more terrible acts of violence before that books author will be sufficiently inspired. Below are some modest and maybe too passively voiced considerations of the war effort.


Conceding the notion that there even could be such a thing as a 'war on terror', is there still some morally justifiable basis for our 'spreading of democracy'? Assuming that both those who do and do not support this re-globalization effort both maintain as their goal the improvement of global society, can we accomplish this goal in a morally satisfactory way by using violence? Dropping large bombs on Arab countries will eventually lead to our victory over Islamic fundamentalism (we simply have to thin their population sufficiently), but does that mean its a viable means to an end, or that it will not create some greater future problem? The point I'm trying to harp indirectly is this: our actions have serious consequences not only for ourselves but for our great-great-great...-great-grandchildren. Every action we take perpares the soil for these future generations, so it is important that we seed for fruitfull trees rather than salt the earth.