Social Meta Science

Ever hear something that says that if one thing is true then another must be true? People often make a big deal that just because the two things are always paired it doesn't mean that one causes the other. While that's all well and good I think that the coincidental, but consistent pairing of things could be useful. For instance, I think that the world can tell the eventual success or failure of a political movement, or of a nation, through observation of some fairly inconsequential behavior.

Like this... If the people in your movement often gather around firing guns randomly into the air, it seems that history argues that you and your compatriots will ultimately fail.

With telltales like this, the UN Security Council or some other group could be in charge of monitoring and then ultimately stifling or bringing down groups that will in the end just be a waste of time for the world.

Any government who's leader is referred to as "supreme" anything. Supreme Commander, Supreme Leader, Supreme Dude, whatever - ultimately bound for the trash heap of history.

I like the idea because it divorces the intervention from any real political issue. It doesn't matter whether you agree with them or not, you just know that because they are doing this thing that before the final words are written they will fail. Could make the decisions quite a bit easier, more like medicine. Nobody ever cares if you like the wart or not, when you have a wart you get rid of it. We so often get bogged down internationally over ideology. This way the ideology is moot. Who cares if they are right or wrong? Eventually they fail and we'll all be better for simply fast forwarding past the experiment.

If in your cities, or in parades there are often larger than life pictures of your leader (I just bet he's called the "supreme" something) your movement or government is doomed.

Think of it as international ideological euthanasia. Its not ending the movement, its ending the inevitable pain of a protracted death. Maybe we could get Kevorkian to head up the committee.