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Incrementalism or gradualism is a social construct and a historical façade. Photo by   David Clode   on   Unsplash ,   Always Baby Steps??? Also published on Medium . . The main reason   incremental progress is best   rings false has to do with our selective memories, and historical   flattening . It is like saying humans are the greatest animals that evolution could have produced merely because we are the most advanced   hominid   species that survived.   Modern   progress occurs in various spurts and starts, leaps or lurches forward, retries and redos, and backpedaling. The Middle Ages for western culture was a stalled era in many ways, and a backward move in others. Going further into the past, there have been   five mass extinctions   since life began on earth, and before humans arrived on the scene. For evolution, often considered a gradual process, this means — in the most profound sense — it is   the surv...

 Essay first published on Medium . The rush to create a Constitution in 1787 , due to rebellion and divisions among the states, likely made our democracy possible. Today, our precious incrementalism has turned farcically harmful. The more we debate a great idea, the less time we have to legitimately deliberate on, and successfully implement, a nearly great solution. Worse yet the once great idea is reduced to a caricature of its original form. . Nothing is ever perfect that humans finally get their hands on; that is why the nearly great solution. That said, we hold on longer, and mess with things even more than normal imperfect humans should. Stalling, obfuscating, and ranting do not give debate more value. . American Ingenuity Turned To Goo. . We The People still have great, big ideas, but as we debate them over and over again, they ooze out as gray matter goo. Our attempts to solve colossal problems becomes a blended brain matter drainer. Then we squeeze, and strain ...

Crisis Blizzard  Essay first published on Medium . Consider first the French Revolution. Today, many American conservatives demonize it, and denigrate the Age of Enlightenment because of the mob mentality excesses in its last few years , and final grisly outcome as well as the status-quo upsetting ideas the philosophes produced. In the late 18th century, Sir Edmund Burke feared their radical ideas, also propagated by Thomas Paine, could spread across the channel, but thought incrementalism was the best way for Britain to avoid such tumult, and that the nation’s generational continuity held the answer to its future thriving.  However, it was his almost servile linkage to this institutional progression , derived at that time from an aristocratic “DNA” that we are concerned with here. He figured minor tweaks indicated by a proper structure of the forefathers’ inheritance or knowledge-base is basically all that is ever needed. Inertia : the property of matter by which it reta...