I'm not a "progressive" in the sense of expecting people to be the best versions of themselves. Nor do I believe they'll perversely strive to be worst versions of themselves. My assumption is that they'll half-ass personal growth and land on mediocrity 80% of the time. Like me.
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A "specialization" can in fact be defined as a scoping of effort in ways that 0.8% excellence and 3.2% lucky-good translates to a LOT of good output, worth a lifetime achievement award. Very few people find the right scoping of their life efforts early enough to get there.
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Well structured disciplines going through a golden age where a lot of people are being profoundly and excellently productive tap into what is a good scoping for a lot of people and provide the parlaying/leveraging mechanisms to compound the effects of excellence and luck.
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But things like politics are structured by necessity rather than the contours of a golden-age possibility. Politics is not the *kind* of activity that can experience golden ages. At best it can fund and get out of the way of activities that *can* experience golden ages.
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It's like the difference between public market investing (nobody can beat the S&P consistently) and VC (there is such a thing as a hot hand and a track record of good investments that are not fooled-by-randomness outcomes).
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I favor strong high-authoritah BDFL CEOs in business but strongly democratic politics over authoritarian rule for precisely this reason. Running a business IS the sort of activity where excellence and good emperors are possible. In VC investing, it pays to follow the hot hands.
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But in politics, believing in an authoritarian leader is basically like believing a particular investor can consistently beat the S&P. Which is why I prefer average candidates who don't pretend they're Great Men who can deliver golden ages.
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