I think I need to read this guy

[ars_longa]

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
(1930 - )

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[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

me too. I keep postponing reading his books for...a decade now. every time I see a fresh article with quotes from Sowell, I remind myself to put him on my list...

[sthinks.livejournal.com]

"replacing what worked with what sounded good" - отлично сказано.