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If you don’t know what you want, you can’t be disappointed you didn’t get it. If you don’t know what you’ll get, you won’t be beholden to citizens for not getti
by aspenmayer 6y ago
If you don’t know what you want, you can’t be disappointed you didn’t get it. If you don’t know what you’ll get, you won’t be beholden to citizens for not getting it or getting it done. It may seem careless, but it’s also convenient to avoid accountability by avoiding responsibility, and avoiding responsibility by avoiding acknowledgement or awareness of an issue.
- convolvatron 6y agothis seems true. but it kind of implies that there is a _secret_ agenda. it would kinda be more comforting if there was, but its not really clear.
- aspenmayer 6y agoI didn’t mean to imply such an agenda exists in America. Sovereign democracy in Russia is one example of what such a secret (or even explicitly public) agenda would look like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov https://www.economist.com/europe/2013/05/11/an-ideologues-exit https://www.economist.com/europe/2013/05/11/an-ideologues-ex...