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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: craig crawford who wrote (21423)3/15/2002 12:00:09 PM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
here is partially the reason <ref>
which means we have a right to do this <ref>
another reason here <ref>
here is why national interest takes precedence over efficiency <ref>
to which i say <ref>
[and so on.. <refs>.]

What's this...The Collected Works of Craig Crawford?

Please consider:

Writing a short, concise, pithy, tight, crisp letter is difficult. It requires a crystal clear idea of what you want to say. The greater your uncertainty, the greater the letter's length and cruftiness. The harder it is for another to read and understand. Making something effortless takes hard work.

Creating a good simple explanation requires a deep understanding of what you want to describe. It requires you generalize. That detail be abstracted, removed, or aggregated away. That you know the thing's aspects, and know their relative importances. That you "grok" what is really fundamentally going on.

It may sometimes not be possible to create an interesting explanation. Perhaps in some areas indescribable subtlety is all there is. But even there, with effort, it may atleast be possible to describably capture the essence of the subtlety.

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Regards,
--FaultLine
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