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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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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anyway the only way around the circular dependency I see is:
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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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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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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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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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could you possibly point me to some? i've googled around a bit for "code for america testimonial" and haven't been able to find anything besides their medium
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this is kinda related but not the particular thing I'm thinking ofhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/13/magazine/design-issue-code-for-america.html …
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specifically I swear there was an unofficial just from an employee medium post about the VA health care job but can't find
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