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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      Alice Maz Retweeted Jonathan Howard but spooky  👻

      this tweet and the tweet quoted are interesting to me because they seem to be using the word "politics" to mean two totally different thingshttps://twitter.com/staringispolite/status/962750566634897408 …

      Alice Maz added,

      Jonathan Howard but spooky  👻 @staringispolite
      Politics is the art of deciding together what we do as a society. Expressing values into action that effects all of us. When the smart & principled disengage, they leave worse people to decide for us. When independent thinkers disengage, they increase the tribalism they decry. https://twitter.com/naval/status/962446161733828609 …
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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      you can separate out the "politics" referred to here into two systems that interact with each other, namely "mass politics" and "the business of governance"

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      mass politics being the complex of the public and the media that attempts to steer it, and lately proliferating communications channels attempting to subvert media

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      governance being the domain of bureaucrats, lobbyists, politicians, policy institutes et al

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      a lot of mass politics is about the public, not part of the governance mechanism and thus holding little to no direct power, thinking/being made to think they are part of it

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    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      hence a lot of "politics" in this sense is an insane form of kabuki theater, getting very mad on the internet about things as radical praxis

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    7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      in this way the only possible public influence over policy is destructive (neutral connotation), outrage confounding attempts of governance wing to do things, not constructive

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      the policy touchstones of the past three administrations (this one so far) have been by my estimation, trump tax cut, obamacare, iraq war

      1:17 PM - 11 Feb 2018
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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          nothing anyone actually wanted, just the things that managed to make it through the public outrage filter

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        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          the governance mechanism's biggest problem isn't the public really, it's systemic dysfunction, which would require at the least major, sweeping form to correct

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        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          but this is when you get into the recursive dependency graph these two spheres interacting with each other create

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        5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          it's highly likely the current crop of governance creatures lack either/both the will to carry out sweeping reform or the competence to execute well and create something healthier

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        6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          if they did, though, the public would likely confound efforts, stirred up be the media, which thrives on stirring people up with what a Big Deal everything is

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        7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          the media was long before facebook optimizing for engagement even if they didn't have the same sense of it, and in fairness a project like this actually would be a Big Deal

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        8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          but so many of governance types are status quo-biased status-obsessed incompetents _because_ their inverse see systemic failure and insane media kabuki and decide against

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        9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          most smart competent results-oriented future-focused people rightly don't want to be involved in that quagmire because of the problems their presence would be required to solve

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        10. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          I'm always a bit sad reading code for america testimonials (members of which do seem to be generally smart competent etc)

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        11. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          because they always amount to "we found this one incredibly fucked up thing and through an enormous amount of fighting bureaucrat intransigence made it measurably less so"

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        12. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          anyway the only way around the circular dependency I see is:

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        13. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          a) preference cascade of smart etc people who value reforming the system wholesale deciding there's enough of them to take it over entirely, who b) maintain the attitude the public can go fuck itself

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        14. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          but I don't think this is likely to happen because the democracy meme is too strong, and what's more probable is at least partial societal collapse in the coming decades

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        15. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          and a protracted chaos that ends when enough people begin to favor stability over all other terminal values and thus desire to produce a stabilizing force no matter what it is

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        16. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

          I do earnestly believe we are somewhere in the spring and autumn and one of my fondest wishes is, if this is true, to be able to live to see the hundred schools of thought

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