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Agreed, however calm, reasoned analysis doesn't generate political will. It just becomes fodder for the demagogues to slice and dice in service of their own in
by dasil003 6y ago
Agreed, however calm, reasoned analysis doesn't generate political will. It just becomes fodder for the demagogues to slice and dice in service of their own influence.
We're at a point that our societal and economic structures are not incentivized to solve the hard problems of scaling our civilization. I don't think polarized rhetoric is the way, but neither does anyone have time for the nuanced and deliberate thinking necessary to solve these kinds of complex structural problems.
- naringas 6y agoBy this point nunaced and deliberate thinking on its own won't cut it. We need to reconsider serveral implied assumptions going back hundreds of years. But doing this in a way such that people (and institutional persons) don't take it as an attack on what they are seems (and probably is) impossible.