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"Matt Barrow" wrote:

Think: principles

This requires long-term view of things and also integrative thought.

I agree.


Pragmatism is short-term, whim based.

Priciples, correctly done, are self-corrective. Pragmatism leads, as we see
in current society, the heaping on of more and more "corrective action" in
the form of "vicious cycles". (Think" "Throw more money at the problem".)

well, pragmatism is not necessarily bad, and is NOT "whim based"

Pragmastism isn't really part of the problem. Short-sighted goals and
selfishness labelled as pragmatism is.

--
Bob Noel
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