We are a nation of gamblers. ( and cancellors ?) If its a human that's running it, it s not the same as a horse or something listed on the high performance assets register. Look at how attached so many are to the sharemarket.
My bros and cousins have never got a cent investment for their companies which export Aussie inventions . One has gone broke and the other made it on his own look up Modra.com .
Try to get a loan yourself . Many Jewish companies wsiely and effectively rely of their own people, not the stock market and banks . Some churches used to run banks.
2. Western leaders and the failed science class (FSC) kid themselves about their real commitment which is actually to worship technology not science ; something the famous and well respected Christian sociologist Ellul pointed out nearly 100 years ago." The Technological Society "
3. Lots of teachers and thinking Christians back the Labor Party because they do not see that the FSC are not interested in excellence and precision, but in new ideas ( the naming thereof?) . Too many now then , jump on a new idea before it's tested . Paradoxically patience is a great virtue and not common amongst gamblers. Most producing people like farmers know patience well.
Whitehead is on the teaching classes reading list but he too failed to help educators understand this slight of hand and its importance for much failed progress in our era . We are good innovators but bad investors .
The biggest disease in University funding in the West
Whitehead coined the term http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com which is now the biggest disease in Western Universities.
Remember the OT idea of marginal economics that works for the poor -- leaving the corners of the harvest field for the widows ! I could give so many examples but every accountant and many companies and govt agencies and their acountants ,now run only a 2 column ledger .
