I’m bored by talk of institutional failure in Judgment Day mode.
They are not cathedrals of moral purpose. They’re just machines with a range that fail outside that range.
Fix if you can, replace if you can’t. Save the sermons. They’re made up of average humans just like you.
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The discourse everywhere is full of self-righteous judgment pronouncements and moral grandstanding. Get over yourself. You’re not God, you’re a Yelp reviewer.
It’s like that story by Shirley Jackson, The Lottery.
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"They’re just machines with a range that fail outside that range," is basically right, but redoing entrenched institutions generally requires political support. This can require some sermonizing on the fact that they've exceeded their range and are fundamentally broken.
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Politics is an institution too. I disagree that sermonizing helps much. There’s a lot of it — like 10000x what’s useful — and it helps people cope, but actual fixes come from elsewhere. It’s just easy and cheap to do. Slacktivism.
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I agree with you.
Lack of doing makes people more prone to talking recklessly.
It is easy to say not enough is being done if you have to do nothing but say things.
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One issue I have is that the leaders of a country should probably have some qualities superior to those of average humans, at least with respect to governing and leading.
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