The secret to never being wrong again? Perhaps it is situational ethics. If you subscribe to either conservative or liberal political beliefs you will eventually be wrong. Either government will grow so big and cumbersome and interfere too much with the society it serves OR government will fail to protect us from the consolidation of wealth and power with the richest and most powerful and we will suffer because of the evils and scarcity this will bring.
There is a analogy of three guys going for beers in a bar. One person, pays nothing . one person pays $5 per beer and the richest pays $10 per beer. They all think this is fine until the price for the richest person gets so high they give up and leave, presumably to a third world country where they can drink in peace without the bar (government) constantly raising the price of their beer (taxes) in such an unfair (Whaaaaaa) manner. What that stupid metaphor fails to show in it's simplicity is that the bar is in fact supported by the poor guy. Without labor to grow the barley and turn it into beer there is no bar. Without labor to pour the beer and clean the bar it is a gross failure. Yet we are given this cautionary tale as if it is absolute truth. But it is partially true, The wealthy will choose paradigms where they can keep their wealth to the greatest extent possible.
Conservatives sell us the idea that what is wrong with our nation, The USA, is that we have all these departments like the EPA that hinder business. And they do! This is a problem if you are an industrialist who wants to dump carcinogens in the water supply. If you live downstream from said factory you may be glad that law enforcement, which is what the EPA is, keeps criminals from poisoning you. The free market has not solved this problem, they have moved it to China. So without the factory to regulate the EPA has to regulate smaller things, like the product made in the factory. Does it have lead? How much? Don;t chew on it! The water pollution and cost to humans is paid by the people in China who make the product and eventually people (every single one) who depend on the ecology of earth to live.
We get moments of sanity in all of this in which truths emerge, like THERE ARE NO JOBS ON A DEAD PLANET. The problem is that people do not want the truth in the short term, we want to live, have fun maybe get a jet ski while we can. Some people want just to live, get a job, have healthcare. If you do not have these things they become very important, more important than a jet ski. Nothing is as important as water to a person perishing of thirst. They get a drink, food and the necessities. they might want to try the jet ski.
So, back to never being wrong again. If you do not have a paradigm you hold as the best and constantly have to argue is the best, you can TRY things. You can look back at historical trends, look forward with new technologies and ideas and think of ways to solve problems. Speaking of problems if you do not have to defend every decision your :Party" makes you can be objective and be honest and face facts like the fact that despite a drone and the bomb it drops being somebody's job, use of the bomb will have a negative cost for somebody, eventually even the society that made the bomb. Since the majority of our budget in the USA goes to "defense" we need to ask ourselves if that is the best thing for us and our country while we still have the metaphorical bar to talk these things over.
If you want to never be wrong again. never assume you are right just because you say you are. Be right because you tried something and it worked. And if it does not work, admitting you are wrong is the right thing to do.
