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> ideology versus reality It works until it doesn't. I don't think it's common knowledge today that ideology is a luxury, and doesn't put gas in the tank of a
by brink 5y ago
> ideology versus reality
It works until it doesn't. I don't think it's common knowledge today that ideology is a luxury, and doesn't put gas in the tank of a functioning society, now that we've generally taken a functioning society for granted.
- PicassoCTs 5y agoDisasters created by ideology are the normal pathway to vaccinate the general population against memetic viruses. Were education may fail, a winter with rolling black-outs, may not.
- almost_usual 5y agoSometimes you need a forcing function.
- colechristensen 5y agoThere’s probably a theory in there that any technological or social system is doomed to have periodic major preventable failures as a function of human life span and attention. If people aren’t reminded of failure they will inevitably neglect the system until it happens. There’s a follow up whereby it might be optimal to design systems explicitly to allow somewhat frequent non catastrophic failures to keep people on their toes. Attempts at “perfect” safety seeming to only build up to less frequent but bigger disasters.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoThe theory you may be looking for is [1] Chesterton's Fence [1] https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
- michael1999 5y agoCliodynamics is this, but for the miseries of industrial war.
- hanniabu 5y agoThe tradeoff is one failure for another