He read Isaac Asimov's Foundation books, loved them, and failed to understand them. Understood about the first twenty percent or so, the setup of Hari Seldon's idea of psychohistory. If he'd been paying attention through the rest of the stories, he would have seen that psychohistory was doomed to fail.
This explains much.
TigerHawk has the story, and the comments.
And Ramesh Ponnuru has something to say.
It's a pity his school librarian didn't give him some Heinlein.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Secret origin revealed: the shallowness of Paul Krugman
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