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Maybe a better slant on this – there has never been a wider gulf between what is represented as fact or truth in politics and what we are capable of supporting
by incongruity 10y ago
Maybe a better slant on this – there has never been a wider gulf between what is represented as fact or truth in politics and what we are capable of supporting as truth through data and science.
So, it's not so much that politics has changed, but rather, the expectations we have of it are higher because we know it can be better.
- eduren 10y agoWell said. I'd complement your point by adding an analogy most of us can relate to: technical debt. When it happens in software systems, it's generally seen as a quirk/unfortunate reality of the system itself. But as an org attempts to build systems around the original one, the tech debt becomes a glaring flaw that slows and complicates everything else. A refactoring is needed. Our political system (US here, but broadly applicable) including all its written and unwritten rules (integrity, cooperation) has always had flaws. We've worked around them in order to get things done and move forward. It's only now that we've built up other, more engineered and integrated, systems that the technical debt is visibly holding us back. Invisible/ignored tech debt is never addressed; obvious debt is dealt with one way or another.
- sesteel 10y agoI think there should be a STEM party. People in our realm of expertise deal with complicated systems and rules daily; I'd like to think we have a good grasp of side effects and unintended consequences. I feel we learn to deal with systems as they are and when time permits, rearchitect more favorable solutions, hopefully using data to inform our decisions.