So whats the situation now Brussels considers a request to postpone brexit and if they refuse its hard brexit Does Boris get to make the request can he just do a really shit job of it so they say "no" Don't quite understand what parliament thinks its gonna accomplish (?)
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It's really tricky. Major challenges: 1. Accurately understanding what makes institutions strong 2. Updating (1) and institutions as circumstances change 3. Conveying (1-2) to new generations who don't have direct experience with rationale behind institutions
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Over the last hundred fiftyish "circumstances" have been changing at an unprecedented pace You might be able to grapple with this using meta-robust institutions and to some extent I think we've managed that But we're screwing the pooch on (1) and (3) I reckon
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Burke talking about society as a continuously transmitted institution between old, young, past, and future is probably instructive Seems especially like the social break with the Boomers and generational identity (falling out of generational separation?) is ruinous, today
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Similarly, and once more Burkean, excessive zeal for reform and denying evening the existence of Chesterton fences seems quite prominent There are ways to adapt rather than break societies but no one seems interested in these (because why?)
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Gay marriage is a very good case study We were pretty shit to gay people for a very long time "Let them get married and be boring and wholly integrated" was (per Sullivan and others) probably the best way to handle this from a conservationist standpoint
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You could probably manage similar programs for (eg) immigrants, trans people, and so on Get people to buy into the system instead of having no recourse but to break it This seems like perhaps a missed opportunity for the right
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Also for the right, ceding schools and colleges was probably a terrible dire mistake Fighting battles over sex ed and evolution (remember that?) was a terrible terrible idea Shoulda held firm on social studies and classics curricula Welp
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Anyway I have to work today but forget the benedict option maybe consider instead the Asimov Option You want to build a new society best to think generationally I guesshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1169392677491593217?s=19 …
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No part of the 'arc of history bends towards justice' implies worrying about the decay of existing institutions
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Teleology be my coldness
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