(not saying I'm adopting it, though I may...) From Axios today: "The bottom line: Norms and precedents are boring. The lack of them is interesting, but almost always at a severe cost."
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8 Rules for Norms 1. Make it unskilled 2. Make it self-reinforcing 3. Automate it 4. Take heroism/villainy out of it 5. Make it visible+imitable 6. Make it microkarmic (1 recycled can: 1 whuffie) 7. Unbrand it (secret handshake -> ordinary) 8. Uncode it (virtue signal value =0)
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If you successfully do these 8 things, it will become part of background social infrastructure that is self-regulating, auto-socializing etc. It will also drain all the culture-war energy out of the behavior and any counter-behaviors. Suck the air out, starve the flames
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