As Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The RDG and DfT are a bunch of dishonourable charlatans but it doesn't change the fact that no one cares about these strikes anymore and they are achieving nothing - people just shrug their shoulders and work around them. They are simply not going to re-open these negotiations until the risible offer is put to members (which rightly isn't going to happen). So the ASLEF EC either need to dramatically escalate the action which will obviously hit some members hard financially or wait until after the election. What we have at the moment is the worst of all worlds.
Einstein never said any such thing.
I once had a letter published on the subject!
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"I found myself unable to read
Irwin Stelzer’s article on COP26, due to my disbelief at his use of one of the most famous misquotes in history. It is simply false that Einstein ever said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
The quote was popularised when spoken by a character in Rita May Brown’s novel
Sudden Death (1983), though it was also used in a US anti-drug pamphlet around the same time.
But the likely origin of the concept is essentially a misunderstanding of a chapter in Jonathan Swift’s
Gulliver’s Travels. Visiting the Grand Academy, in Lagado, in Balnibarbi, Gulliver is astonished to witness numerous bizarre experiments, including one in which the object is to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. The experiments are repeated over and over, but the “insanity” lies in the nature of the experiments, not that they are being repeated. In fact, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, is basic science."
