I’m sitting here thinking about our liberal friends, and wondering: are they smart, or not so smart? They must be smart-ish, else they would not have been the ruling class in America for the last century and more. They are good at handing out the loot, at hounding Republican presidents from office. But not much else.
What with liberals on Trump’s tail I thought about fighter pilot Col. John Boyd, who lived from 1927 to 1997. I wrote about him back in 2005. Boyd was responsible for the F-16 and F-15 fighters, because science. Boyd is also the inventor of the OODA loop.
To paraphrase the philosopher Joseph Biden: “if you don’t know about Boyd, you ain’t ‘Murican.”
There is now a colonelboyd.com for the benefit of fans and researchers. If you want to get all philosophical, you can read Boyd’s monograph “Destruction and Creation” which gets deep into Gödel and Heisenberg.
But if you just want the slide deck, there is “Conceptual Spiral” waiting for you.
Basically Boyd says that if you want to descend into death and disorder, then keep on keeping on with your closed system that explains everything, dear liberal friends. But that’s not the way the world works. The way you get out of the spiral dive and the increasing entropy of the closed system is with “novelty.” So........