Parker: If You Want to Promote "Freedom"

Townhall -Watching the wave of unrest in the Middle East, there are lessons to consider regarding how we view the world and how we manage our lives here at home. I’d call it getting perspective on what you can control and what you can’t. It should be pretty clear that the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt came as complete surprises. No one predicted them. Is this because no one was paying attention? Of course not. We’ve got armies of analysts – “experts”- who do nothing but study countries. Not just in the government, but also in the private sector - at consulting firms and investment firms. Despite the fact that we’ve got “experts” galore doing nothing but studying particular regions and countries, they rarely, if ever, make a correct prediction if it means that tomorrow will be fundamentally different from yesterday. We can depend on them for plenty of conventional wisdom drawing on reams of information from what’s already happened. But can we turn to them for the entirely new, for the unanticipated, for the inconceivable? Forget it. Read full column here:

Parker: If You Want to Promote "Freedom"