1/ 2x2 grid: authority is competent: y/n people trust in authority: y/n trusting good authority provides utility distrusting good authority misses opportunity distrusting bad authority is fine trusting bad authority is CATASTROPHIChttps://twitter.com/seanilling/status/1419793122763157505 …
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2/ we may, at one point, have had good authority. I make no such claims. But posit that maybe we did ; we certainly trusted it. either that authority was always bad, or it turned bad ... and we kept trusting it. Our elites helped a genocidal totalitarian regime industrialize
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3/ helped destroy the black middle class by shipping jobs overseas, helped destroy the white working class with similar, destroyed racial harmony with grievance mongering, and so much more ...then, at some point, information technology let us SEE just how bad the authority was
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4/ ...and so here we are: we have bad authority, and we [ rightly ] distrust it. Now, yes, you CAN say "the problem is that we don't trust authority". But if your problem is that the people have left the theater, and you concentrate on that, and only acknowledge in passing
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5/ ...that the theater is on fire, then you look a HECK of a lot more like a lunatic who wants to herd people back into a burning building than you look like a guy who wants to put the fire out.
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8/ I've got a different take: "competence" is conflated with "good outcomes". ...but good outcomes require a few things: competence, good luck, etc. or, restated: MEASURING competence is noisy. You shouldn't ditch a leader after one apparent failure, bc many possible causes
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9/ ..but you SHOULD ditch a leader after one backstab, because there's only ONE cause of that: a backstabbing bastard.
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