We have a political culture based on linear metaphors. forward vs. backward. future vs. past. change vs. preservation. these are all hindrances. almost nothing in reality is linear. the world proceeds in loops and spirals and recursions.
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Haha, fair. Tho, if neither "linear" nor "spiral" nor any other currently available accounts have any particularly strong predictive power, then there's no particular reason to believe a political system based on these alternate... views... would be any better, except maybe by
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some ridiculous neurocognitive coincidence. Perhaps an interesting consideration to pursue would be politics not married to any particular account of history (and any implicit claims about future development that carries)
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my observation is that, naturalistically speaking, there are cycles and epicycles in most observable phenomena that play out over time. our political narratives don't match this at all. so much political effort seems to be an attempt to evade cycles which may be inevitable.
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addressed by another reply herehttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1040716918804672512 …
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in terms of utility for human societies, well, I don't know how to connect the dots exactly. I have a preference to have a culture with fewer bad ideas in it though, and I think linear political history is a bad idea.
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Well, it kind of certainly doesn't look like an accurate idea. I'm just not convinced that alternatives are necessarily more accurate, and more importantly, that there is enough info to make such judgement.
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