here is a long thread about how the federal government can end run the Constitution in just about any way you like bringing this up For No Particular Reasonhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1276663566427283456 …
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I didn't touch on Operation Chokepoint here but I should have and I imagine that specific approach will continue in salience
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similarly, licensing regimes where (i) a license is required by the government, and (ii) licensing is handled by private entitieshttps://www.reason.com/volokh/2021/01/08/new-ban-on-harassing-speech-or-hate-speech-anywhere-any-time-by-national-association-of-realtors/%3famp …
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in many ways I see our country becoming less "free" in some broad sense. i am not sure of the extent to which this is a reversion to some tacit historical norms--you could hardly call the Puritans "free" on many important dimensions--rather than a lurch in a novel direction.
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i may actually write an essay about this and post it somewhere once I've digested this further. i think this trend is often noted or intuited but rarely analyzed. in advance of that, one thread that weighs heavily on me is the role of norms in governing freedom
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lots of the norms that existed for the majority of the 20C were thrashed by new behavioral modes enabled by the internet. the tabooing of pornography is one; I suspect there were many others, less obvious.
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Trump, Obama, Bush, Gingrich, and Clinton also destroyed norms; political ones, of course. as someone observed elsewhere, we are a nation of norms. (perhaps this is what a nation is: a collection of norms) (link to my pinned tweet, ha ha ha)
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things that seem likely to me: 1. freedoms in some sense are downstream of norms. 2. some norms permit a broader swathe of freedoms than others. 3. norms are frequently socially load-bearing beyond their overt purposes
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I've posted about this elsewhere, but in short: 1. Norms are distributed beliefs 2. We don't think our beliefs are distributed in this way (and that's normal) 3. Competence is dependent on this mycelial network 4. Freedoms are downstream of distributed competence
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Furthermore, it's cheaper, in the short term, for the incompentent individual to push responsibilty up the heirarchy rather than to Become Competent But as we get higher up, the heirarchy grows sparse, and the mycelium-like network that supports competency decays
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hmmm
have you read @SamoBurja on bureaucracy?
bunch of threads, might not stick together but seems related and worth reading in any case
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It's been awhile, but generally agree with his analysis, convinced me that it was worth working on. Focused mainly on the software side. Feel like I've linked this a lot recently, but here's
@Jonathan_Blow's entertaining take on the problemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko …0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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