Friday, August 06, 2010
The Parable Method
Perhaps the worst use ever of a parable to explain a complex subject. Try to follow it. I couldn’t. He would have been better off simply explaining how lawmakers screwed up the Social Security system. … Maybe he could have tried a non-parable parable. … You see, once upon a time there was this thing called “Congress” and its members saw a great big stream of “retirement” money flowing in from the provinces, and ...
Perhaps the worst use ever of a parable to explain a complex subject. Try to follow it. I couldn’t. He would have been better off simply explaining how lawmakers screwed up the Social Security system. … Maybe he could have tried a non-parable parable. … You see, once upon a time there was this thing called “Congress” and its members saw a great big stream of “retirement” money flowing in from the provinces, and ...
