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Unscalable, perhaps, but also battle tested by thousands of years of history. What is the alternative? If the problem reduces to our crippled education system,
by losteric 10y ago
Unscalable, perhaps, but also battle tested by thousands of years of history. What is the alternative?
If the problem reduces to our crippled education system, what else can we do besides individual citizen engagement and education?
This is a problem that's been building up over decades. It will take at least as long to fix... if not longer, given our political disadvantage.
- eropple 10y ago> Unscalable, perhaps, but also battle tested by thousands of years of history. What is the alternative? I dunno. It's a hard problem. Plato liked philosopher kings. Maybe we try that. (Disclaimer: this is a joke. A joke is here. Do not well-actually me, humorless internet denizen. Thanks in advance.)
- losteric 10y agoThat's my point. Sometimes solutions simply aren't scalable... I think democracy is one of them. That's not a bad thing. We have a solution, we know we can implement it. It's unscalable but still very easy on the individual level.
- eropple 10y agoIn a way, I agree. In another--activating the people to actually do it is not very easy, and thinking retail when the problem is wholesale seems to be a pretty good way to keep having things go to pot. I have some ideas on this, I'm working on one at the moment in my spare time, but...well. We'll see. ;)
- losteric 10y agoWell, I'm curious to see what you're thinking is better. History has shown us the two sides of this coin... broadcasted dogmatic thinking (audience > 100), and empowering critical thinking at a smaller scale (audience ~ 10). The former tends to infect societies that have failed at the latter. We've yet to see anyone achieve broadcasted critical thinking.