This is something that seems obvious to me that just doesn’t get reported… every report on the state of the world is how the world is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Sure, there are problems in the world that need to be addressed, but they simply cannot be addressed correctly without a serious and accurate assessment of the problem. You know… the first step of the scientific method. Without a correct definition of the problem you simply will not be able to solve anything.

The world is not going to hell in a handbasket (and because of the Bush tax cut there are no more handbaskets). I’ve been putting together in my head the format of a talk I’ll give probably next semester on a conservative vision of social justice that will address this more specifically, but in a nutshell, if we’re ever to solve anything we have to get away from this crisis mentality that every problem gets lumped into or more and more people will just tune out. Call it the “boy who cried wolf” effect.