Comments on: Old School T Friedman Bashing https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/04/03/old-school-t-friedman-bashing/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:33:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: James https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/04/03/old-school-t-friedman-bashing/#comment-722 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:33:53 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/old-school-t-friedman-bashing/#comment-722 Friedman’s a pretty broad target. Whatever is in front of him at any particular moment is the most important thing in the whole world. He identifies this narrow-mindedness as “insight” and is eager to share his wisdom the same way a child insists on explaining the private lives of her Little People.

Example: Tom Friedman brings his headlights to bear on fusion power.

http://tinyurl.com/cg4okl

I tried to explain to the person that first sent me this link the practical difficulties involved in converting a lab experiment to a working power plant and then retooling hundreds of thousands of industrial enterprises to build such power plants on a large scale. Bottom line: even if it works and even if it can be commercialized, the world’s oil will run out before these things take over a significant portion of electrical generation. But Tom Friedman, for all his enthusiasm for capitalism, knows precisely nothing about the dreary details of actually making things. In his mind, he’s made a discovery that will save the whole world.

HE made the discovery. Every Friedman story is about his fantastic journey and his fantastic visions. The scientists are nothing but necessary raw material for a story about Thomas Friedman’s amazing discovery of fusion power. Thanks for sharing, Tom!

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