We have schools that don’t teach, public health organizations that don’t protect our health and a Department of “Defense,” an unsatiatiable perpetrator of violence and bullshit, the world’s biggest bully and propaganda machine. What do each of these institutions have in common? Economist Thomas Sowell’s advice:

When examining institutions, it is critically important “to distinguish between:

(1) examining issues and institutions in terms of their process characteristics versus

(2) examining them in terms of their proclaimed goals or ideals….

Knowledge and Decisions, Preface to 1996 Edition.