He's been trying to sell his house for $375,000. A man agrees to let Palma come over tomorrow evening. "Are you familiar with the definition of insanity? It's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Jackpot. They’re Always Wrong," the Washington Post, Feb. But is that what key government forecasters are doing in determining their outlook for the economy?" -"Forecasters Keep Thinking There’s a Recovery Just Around the Corner. "They say that the essence of futility is to keep doing the same thing while expecting a different result. John Dingell (Mich.) responded by saying, 'Einstein observed that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again with the full expectation that the results are going to be different.' Actually, the quote is probably apocryphal - but Einstein didn’t live to see the 113th Congress." -"On Obamacare, Republicans Test the Limits of Insanity," the Washington Post, July 17, 2013 "If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then House Republicans might look potty." -"Why Republicans Can't Relax," Slate, Aug. No matter how many times, over and over, the same aphorism crops up, it's not going to suddenly become perceptive. Not least because it's a favored phrase of the Clintons, it's most commonly used to describe political news - after all, by the third time a minority party in Congress tries unsuccessfully to obstruct a bill, there aren't very many new things to say about it, and that column won't write itself.Įven so, journalists for the publications we skimmed through (and yes, Salon is hardly immune) ought to heed their own adage. The old saw, which has been most commonly attributed to Albert Einstein by folks who tend to imply he may not have said it (it's not actually attributed anywhere), comes up again and again in journalism. It's often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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