LEARNING FROM FAILURE I emailed Jonathan Haidt a question this morning, and thin

LEARNING FROM FAILURE

I emailed Jonathan Haidt a question this morning, and think I just answered it myself: it’s not so much that he can change our political system, or even hopes to (although I assume he does) but that the dysfunctionality of the political system provides good data for his research into moral foundations. Sort of how I use libertarians and socialists: the fact that they’re so wrong about everything allows us to determine what is right. Or how neurologists study the brain by studying those with defective brains. It’s very hard to learn much from normalcy. (as Nassim Taleb is trying to tell us). It’s only useful to learn from error. As Popper has been trying to tell us. We don’t tell the truth, but instead, give warranty that we do not speak falsely. And that is what I am trying to say.