Wanting to completely kill an institution w/o very careful thought feels naïve, esp when best case fix is to amend. Easy to point out flaws and sometimes it is time for a full on revolution, but I wonder if all of our bias lately to torch centuries of work & roll dice is unwise?
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The internet gave us like 10 revolutions at once and we still don't know how to process what's going on. Everything is irrevocably changed and no one has adapted even people running the show don't fully see 2nd order effects. Maybe pandora's box is just open now ...on everything.
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Humans evolved from nuclear families with clear physical and ideological roles and boundaries. Then came the industrial revolution, which quickly moved power away from this time-tested decentralised system and towards centralised single-points-of-failure. This is what happened.
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Tell that to the Spanish who still have waaaaaaaayyyyyy too many Francists walking around. Last year they finally took his body out of a ghastly like temple / mausoleum and it was problematic. It's a REAL problem. his spirit lives on in the PP. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/773022042/spain-moves-dictator-francisco-francos-remains-after-months-of-legal-battles#:~:text=Spain%20Moves%20Dictator%20Francisco%20Franco's%20Remains%2C%20After%20Months%20Of%20Legal%20Battles,-Facebook&text=Pool%2FGetty%20Images-,Francisco%20Franco%2C%20Spain's%20fascist%20dictator%2C%20who%20died%20in%201975%2C,where%20his%20wife%20is%20buried ….
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i don’t know what you’re saying exactly, but nothing i said is a hard and fast rule
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A good counterexample to consider with reform vs. revolution is that revolution might help a society escape local minima in a way that the simple hill-climbing algorithm of reform might not (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing#Local_maxima …)
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