That's true C2 in one way: < History is the unfolding of miscalculation. I would be harsher: History is the unfolding of folly.> But actually, that's like the old shibboleth "We learn from our mistakes". In fact, we learn to succeed from our successes, not our mistakes. Our mistakes are like punishment = they tell us what not to do, but they don't reward us and tell us what to do to succeed. Success is the teacher. "Aha, so that's how to do it." There's an infinite array of ways to fail, but a narrow channel to success.
Yes, history is made up of miscalculation and folly. But if you look around you, nearly all you will see is success, good thinking and glorious achievement. What was miscalculation, folly, mistake, blunder and MADness are soon subsumed by reality. 99.999999999999999% of DNA mutations are failures in life. Random attempts at trying everything that can be tried. Even so, the fact is that every single living thing has a trail of ancestors going back hundreds of millions of years, during which time not a single ancestor failed to reproduce and every mutation and recombination of genes was successful. What are the chances of every single one of both of our ancestors going back those umpty million years and not a single time failing so that we could exchange these words in Cyberspace. Pretty much infinite to 1. Couldn't happen. But did.
So while 99.999999999999% of history is failure, blunder, mistake, folly, doom and death, the history that actually matters is the minuscule part of it that is success. Success is what we see all around us.
Apparently Zbig is still influential. It's strange how people think they are doing good, but in fact they are doing evil. I'm sure Obama doesn't get out of bed in the morning and think, "What can I do today that's evil, cruel, stupid, and destructive. But the hunt for WMDs in Iraq was just that. So was the attempt to take over Crimea for NATO and the New World Order. So was the forcing of Russia to sell gas to China instead of the Euroserfs. So was shooting down the Russian warplane over Syria [invasion of Syrian airspace by Turkey].
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