idea im turning over dignified institutions: Congress, presidency efficient institutions: courts, bureaucracy here of course I use these descriptors in strict parallel to Bagehot. and extremely not in their casual sense
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what's interesting is that the bureaucracy in particular is defined by a kind of lack of agency and initiative. not to mention intense self-interest so if you cede most governing power to a bureaucracy you shouldnt be surprised by govt sclerosishttps://samoburja.com/how-to-use-bureaucracies/ …
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eigenrobot Retweeted Emmett Shear
government justified by presenting results to an electorate vs government justified by following a scripthttps://twitter.com/eshear/status/1430947734144446468?s=19 …
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Emmett ShearVerified account @eshearReplying to @eigenrobot“Efficient organizations” by your definition are ones that are required to explain their decisions (judges write lengthy decisions, bureaucracies at least internally produce vast quantities of formally reasoned paperwork). “Dignified organizations” may simply act, unexplained.1 reply 0 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
anyway it feels like many (most?) important political decisions are made by the courts at this point. and most routine decisions are handled by independent bureaucracies outside the control of any particular Dignified political actor
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this is sort of disappointing as someone who enjoys Congressional gridlock on the theory that the government not doing things is good actually because the efficient institutions will keep chugging away without any meaningful check
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1. Is there a period in US history you believe has the best balance of institutional powers? 2. Are there any world governments with approaches you favor compared to the US?
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1. well I basically hate the new deal more than anything 2. I dont know. I basically oppose most governments as they exist. are there even any massively-decentralized governments or night watchman states in existence? seems like not
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oh man idk where to start tldr is that it was a hodgepodge of programs, badly designed, a few were great, most were bad, several were horrible and caused the depression to go on longer than necessary, it massively expanded government to areas where government works badly,
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and in the process crowded out (technical term) small-s society from a huge number of places displacing it with State in the Seeing Like a State sense, roughly destroying a robust organic national fabric
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it also destroyed the Constitution as a document that existed to constrain government and we rapidly moved from needing a literal Amendment to ban alcohol to just prohibiting everything you can imagine without even a vote it also gave us Wickard v Filburn, check it out
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the 13yo ancap in me has always wanted this to be true, but it was a step too heretical reading about Wickard v Filburn now thanks
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somewhat relatedly: 17th amendment was also a progressive disaster
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