The worst and most fundamental lie about the concept of "civics class" is pretending our system was engineered intentionally and every feature of it has some kind of "design goal" It's the same error as attributing telos to biological evolution but actually worse https://twitter.com/shaunltd/status/1261434637441626113 …
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I always think of that joke from the Office, Ryan's toast "A toast to the troops! *people cheer* All the troops! Both sides! *awkward silence*"
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Yeah - but I think a counterpoint to this is that you have some kind of celebration of any compromise in order to get some kind of positive feeling afterward, rather than just resentment for what you gave up. I mean, in any negotiation. But after 250 years, we can be circumspect
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It's not really about being true, but about making a memory.
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but then lawyers might have to study more and we can't have THAT
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