Marc Andreessen on the "Underpants Gnomes" logic that drives most of politics "There's a famous South Park episode, the Underpants Gnomes. They steal underpants at night, and when the kids ask what the point is, the gnomes present their master plan. It's a three-part plan: step one, collect underpants. Step three, profit. Step two is a question mark" "The form of this in politics is: we must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do this. But there's no causal logic chain in there at all to expect that it's actually going to succeed" "I hear this all the time from friends on these boards: these are very important, we must fix them, therefore they are fixable. There's no logic chain there at all"