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So with a minor assurance that I'm not criticizing you for doing so, are you using "large ideas" to mean "things that are interesting, but have very little prac
by saalweachter 6y ago
So with a minor assurance that I'm not criticizing you for doing so, are you using "large ideas" to mean "things that are interesting, but have very little practical application"?
I ask because it changes my answer depending on whether the sample question is representative and how you are thinking about it, either as an author imagining an ideal situation or as a political theorist trying to understand human behavior of as a political reformer writing out a five year plan.
The issue being that politics is a team sport, and it doesn't really matter what you think is the most ideal system so much as what 100m people will agree to.
(Which isn't to say I have a problem with thinking about the ideal situations which have no chance of being implemented; I spent far too much time yesterday coming up with a proposal to redefine the foot-pound-second units as 1 second = 9.5x10^9 caesium-133 oscillations, c = 1 billion feet per second, and 1 pound = mass of 10^25 atoms of Si-28.)