One or two years before, I believed that every process of significant importance is optimized.
What does it mean? It means the strategies, varies from trading, marketing, politics and diplomacy, are formulated in such a way that the cost being minimized, while positive effect maximized, with absolute rationality. Maybe some people find such a believe ridiculous. But for those who assume political and commercial leaders are ideally rational and selfish, such a conclusion is obvious.
Recently I am not so sure. For the numerical world, i.e. the business sector, optimization has already been a profession, in which a great variety of problems can be reformulated and solved in standard ways. And it is almost no doubt that my previous description on optimizing business has already been a goal for all big business. However, politicians cannot share the success of rational optimization in business sector because of their difference in the mechanisms of pricing.
In the political world (either external or internal affairs), there is no rules in pricing (at least in this stage). Maybe one day political considerations can be done with mathematical precision, but such a day is still far far away. In this stage, a leader with absolute rationality is still rare. Though I don't like to view everything in historical or cultural sense, it is still important to understand how much a society can shape individuals' minds. The seeds of irrationality are then introduced.
However, in any sense it is impossible to price according any moral value, unless everyone in the world is brainwashed. It is because the self restrictions a moral entity set to himself simply means surrender. Though the blind public always has moral sentiment, great politicians can rephrase the power consideration by moral argument, without any emotional involvement. Then the public will be willing to die for you.
Goodbye John Rawls. Let's greet Mr. Machiavelli.
What does it mean? It means the strategies, varies from trading, marketing, politics and diplomacy, are formulated in such a way that the cost being minimized, while positive effect maximized, with absolute rationality. Maybe some people find such a believe ridiculous. But for those who assume political and commercial leaders are ideally rational and selfish, such a conclusion is obvious.
Recently I am not so sure. For the numerical world, i.e. the business sector, optimization has already been a profession, in which a great variety of problems can be reformulated and solved in standard ways. And it is almost no doubt that my previous description on optimizing business has already been a goal for all big business. However, politicians cannot share the success of rational optimization in business sector because of their difference in the mechanisms of pricing.
In the political world (either external or internal affairs), there is no rules in pricing (at least in this stage). Maybe one day political considerations can be done with mathematical precision, but such a day is still far far away. In this stage, a leader with absolute rationality is still rare. Though I don't like to view everything in historical or cultural sense, it is still important to understand how much a society can shape individuals' minds. The seeds of irrationality are then introduced.
However, in any sense it is impossible to price according any moral value, unless everyone in the world is brainwashed. It is because the self restrictions a moral entity set to himself simply means surrender. Though the blind public always has moral sentiment, great politicians can rephrase the power consideration by moral argument, without any emotional involvement. Then the public will be willing to die for you.
Goodbye John Rawls. Let's greet Mr. Machiavelli.
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