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Some busy power brokers and intellectuals assembled a few ideas just 250 years ago and wrote them down as the second draft of requirements for their Modern Nati
by swatcoder 5y ago
Some busy power brokers and intellectuals assembled a few ideas just 250 years ago and wrote them down as the second draft of requirements for their Modern Nation app.
It makes sense that we might need to do a little debugging and refactoring now and then.
Just like the accessibility and exponentially amplified voice provided by the printing press prompted some of the “core principles” of Europe to get reshuffled, it’s pretty reasonable to me that social media could prompt some reshuffling of it’s own.
Dogmatic commitment like you hint at for yourself is an important part of the dialogue of how that reshuffling might look, but I don’t know that your characterization of others is very accurate.
- hirundo 5y agoWe built that big cement dam decades and decades ago. We've learned so much about engineering and risk assessment since then. It makes sense that we might need to do a little debugging and refactoring now and then. It's pretty reasonable to drill a few small holes in the dam, and to defer maintenance in favor of more urgent priorities. Dogmatic commitment to the old no-hole-drilling and take-maintenance-seriously dialogues of the past is just a quaint antiquarian tradition.