all right. a bunch of thoughts in no particular order
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Replying to @eigenrobot @RatifyGuy1776
1. i have succeeded in pushing exactly zero policy ideas in the course of my life. the easiest way to do this is to start with something small and specific, and getting this very clear ideas in front of a bunch of existing stakeholders
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Replying to @eigenrobot @RatifyGuy1776
there have been numerous efforts to push massive governmental changes from the bottom up most of the involved people end up murdered and things returning to status quo very quickly (eg French Rev) or turn out very badly and eventually revert to status quo (Communishm)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @RatifyGuy1776
if you want to push for something like that, probably best to boil it down to something that can be encapsulated by a three to five word slogan (really)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @RatifyGuy1776
all of *these* very large movements ultimately had quite broad intellectual support in advance, which should tell you something about intellectuals. but if you want to sway them it is important to become someone who intellectuals want to listen to first
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a good way to do this perhaps is just to start hanging out on blogs and in comment sections and leaving incandescently brilliant comments. or at least thoughtful ones. freddie deboer and scott alexander got their start doing this sort of thing, freddie especially
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Replying to @eigenrobot @RatifyGuy1776
ii. it might be worth thinking about what sort of change or small set of changes are most important to you, and think about how to accomplish them using the most modest means possible. large changes inevitably disadvantage a large number of powers who will be natural opponents
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Replying to @eigenrobot
You're right! That's why I went out of my way to try to reimagine the military-prison-surveillance-industrial complex. And I know that doesn't eliminate the problem for them, and they don't really have a reason to sign on at present.
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Replying to @RatifyGuy1776 @eigenrobot
My thinking was that
#Ratify would enable discussion of#CivNet by also enabling discussion of everyone else's causes, in a context that prevents it from just being noise.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @RatifyGuy1776 @eigenrobot
The idea is that if
#Ratify gets big enough, they *have* to allow us to change things. We'd have taken direct control of the core of the nation's legal existence in a way they would have no legitimate way to stop.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
so, usually this sort of thing is only really possible when society is falling apart anyway. people really have a hard time paying attention to things unfortunately at that point you're already competing with a dozen other players trying to do the same thing you are
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Replying to @eigenrobot
god don't I know it everyone doing their own damn revolution, nobody wants to share
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