Why Bad Times Lead to Great Ideas
What excuse can I come up with to link to this fantastic Foreign Policy feature, “The Next Big Thing: Why bad times lead to great ideas“? I suppose I could quote from one of the splendid sections, and tie it into that ongoing housing discrimination business.
According to FP, Winston Churchill once noted: “The American people always do the right thing, after they’ve tried every other alternative.” I’m glad to see my people making great headway towards doing the right thing on so many fronts: enforcing fair housing law, upholding the Constitution in various other ways, not pouring liquidity over banks already drowning in toxic assets…
I can’t wait to see everybody come through and do the right thing, because that is what Americans (eventually) do.
(Artwork is flaming US dollar-house on Made in U.S.A. grill, original photograph.)