and this nugget sounds great (i'll read a few more times and let you know if i change my mind)
Contrary to popular belief, particularly prevalent in superficially stable (pre-pandemic) liberal democracies, government is an exercise in engineering and competence—not morality. What COVD-19 has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt is how poorly engineered many governments are—and how easily that can manifest as abject incompetence in the face of a real crisis. This is not because their employees are immoral (necessarily; they may be immoral as well). They do not have the wrong ideas about how to govern. “Don’t let millions die in a pandemic,” is an idea all would get behind. They have the wrong incentives, responsibilities, capabilities, and competencies.
And preceding that:
“The division in politics can be summarized as between
+ Embedded, complexity-minded, multiscale/fractal localists (politics as an ecology/complex adaptive system)
+ Abstract one-dimensional universalists & monoculturalists (politics as a top-down engineering project)”
and this nugget sounds great (i'll read a few more times and let you know if i change my mind)
Contrary to popular belief, particularly prevalent in superficially stable (pre-pandemic) liberal democracies, government is an exercise in engineering and competence—not morality. What COVD-19 has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt is how poorly engineered many governments are—and how easily that can manifest as abject incompetence in the face of a real crisis. This is not because their employees are immoral (necessarily; they may be immoral as well). They do not have the wrong ideas about how to govern. “Don’t let millions die in a pandemic,” is an idea all would get behind. They have the wrong incentives, responsibilities, capabilities, and competencies.
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." Pardon me, but I'll take a person with solutions and cures any day- you just keep your warm and tender hands to yourself. (From my daughter's FB)
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Pardon me, but I'll take a person with solutions and cures any day- you just keep your warm and tender hands to yourself. (From my daughter's FB)
