"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Parable of the Broken Traffic Lights
"As his brain slowly awakens, he stumbles across the likely culprit: Something must be wrong with the traffic lights. He concludes that the lights are not working, leaving the drivers to figure out how to negotiate the intersections on their own. Wouldn’t that, he wonders, cause many accidents?"
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Allow me to venture a guess before reading the article; traffic would move smoother, hence faster, and as a consequence the number of traffic accidents would go down. Now, I shall go read it.
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