If you’re part of the solution, you are the problem.

[Verbal Mike]

Everybody thinks solutions are the end of problems. The truth is the opposite: solutions are where the problems begin. And yet, trapped in misperception, everyone goes looking for magical solutions; explanations to dispel all problems; final solutions. Grabbing a broad brush, they paint the world in new colors, making sure not to mention problems their new ideas do not address. Frantically they chase the illusive Theory of Everything. On the way, they create one new theory after another. They believe each of these to be the final solution, the magic formula to get rid of everything that is wrong with this world.

If you're part of the solution, you are the problem.

Everybody gets it all wrong. Instead of just grokking a problem, they try and grok all problems everywhere. Of course they convince themselves slowly this is possible, and then that they have done it. Once they manage to conveniently forget the rest of their problems, now believing they have understood all the issues that matter, they go on to put their theory into practice, if they can.

Look at Hitler and his gang. They thought they had their problems figured out. They cobbled together a Race Theory, slapped on some economical plans, wrapped it all up with fascist propaganda, and sold this lovely package as a remedy to all ailments. Millions bought it, and millions subsequently bit the dust. The Final Solution, they called it. And that's where things really got thick.

Magic is a fickle servant. Never trust a magic solution, and just to be sure, never trust anything that even smells like a magic solution. These so-called solutions are behind all of our problems.

What do you mean, "I'm doing it right now?"
Fuck you.

[Reeducation]

Yeah, fuck solutions. Make babies. Now.
I made one, and all my solutions are gone.

[Messier Undertree]

The world isn't going to change much at all without any guiding sociological paradigms.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Look at Hitler and his gang. They thought they had their problems figured out. They cobbled together a Race Theory, slapped on some economical plans, wrapped it all up with fascist propaganda, and sold this lovely package as a remedy to all ailments. Millions bought it, and millions subsequently bit the dust. The Final Solution, they called it. And that's where things really got thick.

Fuck yeah, preach it!  They've got ALL the answers...Uncle Joe's instant cure for troublemakers...Mao's Homebrew Intellectual-Be-Gone...Pol Pot Wonder Cleanser.

I don't have any answers.

I have a buttload of questions, though.

First class, St V.  Rant your guts up!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The world isn't going to change much at all without any guiding sociological paradigms.

Did you just say "paradigms"?