RISK IS BEAUTIFUL. It’s to be embraced, then danced with – intelligently and creatively. Risk needs to be reclaimed. The thoughtful dance with risk is what separates the modern from the pre-modern era. It is a mindset that was simply unavailable to most people who have ever lived. And its honorable application has given us a quality of life unimaginable to the supermajority of our ancestors.
We need to engage Risk…while we can’t force the outcome (then it wouldn’t be Risk, would it?), neither are we inert, passive actors. We can significantly increase the odds of getting the results we want. At its most basic, isn’t that what we get paid for? Isn’t that the deal we’ve signed up for?
A horrible macroeconomic meltdown came from a criminal distortion of risk – letting the risk takers have all the upside of the obviously irresponsible risk they took, then socializing all the downside. Truly unforgiveable. And obviously, bulls%^t. If we let the kleptoterrorists redefine risk as the lie that they perpetrated, they will have won. They’re already getting away/got away with too much. We cannot let them get away with robbing us of our birthright as people who have benefitted from the enthusiastic engagement of risk.
I wanna dance with the one what brung me.
