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It's not that things are falling apart, it's that things are not being put back together. Complex societies have systems and mechanisms in them that require peo
by titzer 5y ago
It's not that things are falling apart, it's that things are not being put back together. Complex societies have systems and mechanisms in them that require people to do a.) do their job and b.) hold others accountable. We're a uniquely distracted and lethargic generation obsessed with titillation, fantasy, and procrastination. Yet a lot of things require sober, deliberate work, and enforcing the rules. With the level of corruption in the US government--the level of open shirking of duties and outright lies, coupled with the seeming inability of elected officials to accomplish overwhelmingly popular policy changes, coupled with prolonged strategic malinvestment and a obvious debt bubble, we're in some serious hot water.
- giantg2 5y ago"coupled with the seeming inability of elected officials to accomplish overwhelmingly popular policy changes," I feel like this is always a hot button. What are the overwhelming popular policy changes, and just how popular are they? I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere that will show the top ones with the percent of support.
- codefreeordie 5y agoThere are tons of them, so long as you poll for them carefully such that each person surveyed can imagine that it's the version of the proposal that they support.