"Collective", eh? As @cory_foy points out, the people who work in disaster preparedness weren't allowed to be part of that collective decision. Pretty much anyone concerned with resilience was excluded. I don't agree with all of https://blog.coryfoy.com/2020/04/its-time-to-act-a-response-to-marc-andreessen/ … but it's worth a read.
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Yes, some good points in this, especially at the beginning! However, I think “it’s the Bad Tribe’s fault!” is probably the #1 obstacle to progress in the US now.
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I've started over the past year to think that binary tribalism is a weak analysis. I myself feel part of multiple tribes, and I suspect others do too. We might make progress by not emphasizing each person's most oppositional tribe.
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So I think the problem is not teaching the hoi polloi like you and me not to be tribal, but to dismantle the incentives for media companies and political parties to emphasize, exaggerate, and grow the worst parts of us.
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I guess my root problem with the essay and similar big-think-ing is that its mechanism for change is for the scales to fall from "our" (conveniently excluding the author's) eyes. It's a religious reaction: asking for epiphany rather than an analysis of existing structure.
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Interesting… how does one change structural problems in a democracy other than by preaching?
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It's anti-individualism, but it seems most cases it's the government stepping in during or after a crisis. - Civil rights and the National Guard. - Social security (etc.) and the Great Depression. - The GI Bill (as contrasted to the Bonus Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army )
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Or: the Civil War breaking the idea that people are citizens of a State more than they are of the United States. (Though there have been flare-ups - like today's regionalism - throughout the neverending ensuing Cold Civil War.)
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But technology can amplify preaching. I think there's an argument that the birth control pill enabled a long push for gender equality to break through.
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It was my hope that big change would come after our current crisis - akin to the GI Bill and Levittowns and the such. But I'm coming to think that the structure is too strong.
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If I had to predict, I’d also predict that. I hope otherwise!
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