Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.
You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
Action is typical of the American style, thought and planning are not; it is considered heresy to state that some problems are not immediately or easily solvable.
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
Liberalism is easy because it's emotion. You don't have to do anything to solve the problem. You just have to act like you care about it. Look at the liberalism that's on display. It's enraged; it is causing riots; it is endangering people.
