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Wednesday Email: Does not compute
Well, that was interesting!
Britain now has its third prime minister in less than two months!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Japan.
It looks like the US is also in a period of constant leadership change.
These rapid changes are occurring because, for those leaders, the reality of our current era does not compute.
If you stand back and look at the world situation, world leaders are using past tactics to tackle today’s issues, which are not working.
The leaders see these results are not what they expected, but they don’t compute.
When something does not compute, it doesn’t make sense to someone. The term comes from AI in popular culture.
‘Does not compute‘ is what robots etc., say when they cannot make sense of information that has been inputted into their systems.
Look at what Liz Truss attempted to do.
She went nuclear on the British economy and got what you would expect – a complete disaster.
Boris Johnson tried to emulate Winston Churchill from WWII by pulling Britain out of the European Union, and a schmozzle was the result.
For these leaders, the equations they use do not compute when you input the realities of today.
The same is happening in Japan.
Since 1992 when the economic bubble burst, the government has been doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result each time.
Hey! That’s the informal definition of an idiot!
The solutions of the past do not work for the problems of today.
The fact that the world has changed does not compute for these people.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 72.
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