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I don't have answers, because I'm not an Australian bush fire expert. We need to get past the idea that we can reason this out with faux-rational arguments on
by polemic 7y ago
I don't have answers, because I'm not an Australian bush fire expert.
We need to get past the idea that we can reason this out with faux-rational arguments on message boards.
- hinkley 7y agoAnd do what? Trust the experts? Which experts? Who puts them in the decision process? Often it's the political class. Let the political class make all of our decisions for us without any armchair quarterbacking and see where that gets you. If we don't poke our noses into things then they see a mandate to do whatever they decide they have a mandate to do. Nobody's complaining so things are going great. Democracy without participation is dangerously unstable.
- polemic 7y agoAnd how do you square that with reality here, where the subject matter experts disagree with the political class, and the armchair crowd appears to be siding with the politicians. (I'd suggest that armchair quarterbacks are very much the vanguard of the political class, and not some sort of check on power we might like to believe)
- hinkley 7y agoI would agree that the armchair class are usually not sophisticated enough to avoid becoming someone's pawns. It's easier to swallow when you're a pawn for reformists.