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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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"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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Actual fixes come from public consensus which comes from sermonizing. Fixes that do not come from public consensus instead come from a powerful minority. The powerful minority is likely either controlled by the institution or is the institution. More sermonizing is only solution.
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