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> How to fix it though? Don't think we can. We're more likely to fix one of our other big, fundamental problems—the two party system + gerrymandering, for whic
by ashark 9y ago
> How to fix it though?
Don't think we can. We're more likely to fix one of our other big, fundamental problems—the two party system + gerrymandering, for which proportional representation or any of several other schemes would be a good fix—than we are that, and I'd say the odds of our fixing that this century are maybe 50/50. We have no stomach (or mind...) for questioning such foundational premises of our system in the face of something as abstract and high-falutin' as a kind of political root-cause analysis, and aside from that we have too many states-can't-possibly-do-anything-right-ever-evidence-be-damned-no-really-I-proved-it-from-first-principles-it's-just-like-math folks running around.
- zanny 9y agoThe abundance of persons of the latter mentioned mindset are an intentional product of the power structure, though. Ignorance and indoctrination combined create an army you can oppress and use to keep the oppressed fighting amongst themselves. You just blame your oppressions on the "other". I don't think you can save that many people when there are so many of them. It becomes cultural. Their identities are defined by their conviction. In earlier times, that would be the point where you leave the society and go somewhere else, but there is really no where left to go on Earth - every country has their own flavor of brooding fundamentalists supporting some faction of the government through propagandized anti-intellectualism.