
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
"Hot Mic - Hollywood Hypocrites" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuxIdfyKzho (11 July 2017)
2010s
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
Glamour: A World Problem (1950), The Nature of Glamor
2010s, Why Penn Jillette is Terrified of a President Trump (2016)
Context: Someone who is paying attention can do the same thing that Trump is doing with hate, and do it with love, and become president … That’s kind of beautiful. There’s nothing more optimistic than that. … Donald Trump does, when it comes right down to it, fuck up everything … He fucks up his casinos. He fucks up his buildings.... Maybe he’ll fuck up his campaign before he fucks up the country.
Letter to Mary Jane Truman (14 November 1947)
Source: 1960s, Management misinformation systems, 1967, p. 148.