It’s amazing how Congressional Dems fail to do the absolute, bare minimum they could to rein in GOP abuses by federal judicial appointees, who since Reagan increasingly include disproportionate numbers of grossly unqualified, rank partisan political hacks. The “bare minimum”, I have pointed out before, would be invoking the Constitution’s Article 3, Section 2, which empowers Congress to prescribe the precise constraints on who and which cases enjoy standing to pursue remedies in the federal courts, and under which conditions.

We can learn important lessons from the cutting edge theory of dynamical systems. “Dynamical systems” are systems that obey a small number of simple, physical laws, but out of which can emerge complicated and surprising consequences. They provide models for approximating essentially all nontrivial physical systems in our world. It turns out that, even when we limit the applicable physical laws exclusively to Newtonian mechanics, all but the very simplest models of our physical reality have a large number of states, the vast majority of which are completely chaotic, in the sense that their detailed and precise evolution defies any computation.

It should come as no great surprise or mystery that social élites of all times and places are generally enamored of rosy depictions of social reality, and not keen on changes to it, or, if changes need to be made, they prefer them to proceed at a slow and stately pace. Voltaire famously lampooned such rose-colored outlooks on reality in his character of the philosopher, Pangloss, whose singular teaching to his student, Candide, in Voltaire’s novel by the same name, was “All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds”.