There are many people
whose ideas about the future are reasonable or respected but who
are misguided about the methods of achieving their visions.
Even though they may not lead to constructive results, erroneous
visions deserve a special study.
Here is a modest initial selection:
Karl Marx - his main mistakes, in
my opinion, were falling for the
seductive idea that complex social processes
may be explained and governed by a simple set of rules,
similarly to those suggested by Newton for mechanical
systems, and undue extrapolation of social trends of his
time. Something we could learn from now...
Adolf Hitler
Nostradamus
One of the most successful proponents of
nationalism in history, Hitler gave us some very good
lessons. We paid too much for these lessons not to learn
from them.
Vladimir Lenin did the same thing for communist ideas.
- an
author of a set of vast, vague, and unsubstantiated
claims about the future, which were less unexcusable in
his time than in ours.
All religious
thinkers that ever lived, for mistaking emotionally
charged metaphors for the objective reality?
Some
people whose example you may not want to follow:
Kooks museum