Another aspect to be questioned is having a global information source whose content is shaped by a battleground that favours the most energetic and persistent editors.

He observed that every solution introduced to solve the pressing problems of the day creates a whole new set of problems that will have to be solved in the future.

More to the point, those downstream problems are typically not anticipated or minimized, because political processes generally fail to employ the caliber of systems thinking and model-based reasoning that would have led to devising best practices (rather than haphazard, ad hoc, and ill-advised short-term solutions).

In Medicine, a new treatment is not approved unless and until doctors are confident the new treatment is not iatrogenic — not likely to exacerbate or spread the disease they are trying to cure.

In politics, nearly all solutions are ridiculously and transparently iatrogenic, for reasons that political animals rarely seem able to learn.

(Actually, if one does learn it, one ceases to be a political animal and evolves up the ladder to become more like a real scientist and systems thinker).