Negative and Positive Feedback

Negative feedback is always a good thing, negating as it does the deviation-inducing negativities that populate the environment and subvert the true (the chosen) path. It is not what it otherwise seems, being far from the picture of it that jargon paints in our minds.

Positive feedback, on the other hand, is not so unequivocal: being a good thing sometimes (when what it reinforces is a priori 'good'), and sometimes a bad (when what it touts is itself 'bad'). It eggs you on along the path you're already on, regardless of the consequences, and will not prompt a change of direction -- even if there are dangers ahead. Positive feedback, then, is a stranger to adjustment, if adjustment is not what it receives and so feeds back, as it sleeps with a some-time enemy -- status quo.