12 January 2011 - polarization 2

There is no tomorrow, at least not yet. I’m hoping that the lack will be rectified within the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, I note that political polarization is a variety of short-term thinking. Polarization comes about when some are so eager to get their way now that they are willing to poison the environment and hurt the chances that anyone might control events later, whether a friend or an alien force of pure evil in the other party. Luckily, polarization tends to decrease again after the population and economy are devastated in the ensuing civil war.