{"id":1338,"date":"2023-07-11T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/political-action\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:59:19","slug":"political-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/political-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subtitle\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Le mieux est l&#39;ennemi du bien<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The French saying is attributed to Voltaire. &quot;The best is the enemy of the good.&quot; &#0160;The idea is that one should not allow the pursuit of an unattainable perfection to impede progress toward an attainable goal which, while not perfect, is better than the outcome that is likely to result if one seeks the unattainable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Here is another formulation, not as accurate, but pithier and replete with trademark alliteration: &#0160;Permit not the pursuit of the perfect to preempt the possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/political-action\">more<\/a> at <em>Substack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le mieux est l&#39;ennemi du bien The French saying is attributed to Voltaire. &quot;The best is the enemy of the good.&quot; &#0160;The idea is that one should not allow the pursuit of an unattainable perfection to impede progress toward an attainable goal which, while not perfect, is better than the outcome that is likely to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/political-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,44,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc","category-political-tactics","category-realpolitik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}