If you pay attention (especially to the economics), then any given problem is a lot more complicated than you think; it has no simple solution.Eric Falkenstein:
Envy explains lots more than greed, especially in financial marketsJehu:
Regardless of what you want, it really is a team vs. team fight; pick sides and play.Foseti:
The permanent bureaucracy really runs everything, mostly ignorantly and for their own benefit, and it sucks, and any political analysis that doesn't start from there is worthless.Haidt:
The big political fight is a real, honest, disagreement over values (plus a healthy dose of tribalism), therefore any approach that doesn't acknowledge a real, valid disagreement over values is in trouble.
Also, regular commenter BackYardFoundry suggested:
Aretae:
The virtue of iterativity.Other suggestions for me or others? I am having a much harder time summarizing my other regular reads.
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One of my blogs is easy. The other is hard.
Veil War is easy: "Oh shit, Goblins!"
Perfidy once almost had a theme. It doesn't now: "Stochastic blogging."
If you do not choose a team, one will be assigned to you by the opposing teams. Teams will be assigned based on Schelling points like race, ethnicity, and religion, not so much based on the issues nominally being contended over.
Jehu,
1. I find (with Marx) social class to be under-reported as a team-issue here. Social class (upper) appears to trump race, ethnicity, and religion. It's only lower-class that your line applies to.
2. If you do not choose a team, you will be treated by all teams as being on the other side. From personal experience.
Aretae,
In the US it's more religion (Cathedral or heretic moreso than things like Baptist or Mormon) + race that is the Schelling point than class. I suppose you could use Moldbug's classes if you like.
I use Brook's 10 social classes, but it gives basically the same result as Moldbug's 5.
And in both Moldbug and Brook's case, (AFAICT) race doesn't play at all until you reach the lower half.
Rich lower upper class folks all act like rich lower-uppers and race is 100% irrelevant. It's lower-middle and below where race matters.
Steve Sailer:
Close the gate; we've got enough problems!
HalfSigma:
Neo-con Steve Sailer.
Instapundit:
Libertarian neo-con who believes Republicans are marginally better than Democrats so you should join my blog-possie's never-ending media campaign against them and... buy from Amazon via my links.
Matthew Yglesias:
America should look like Northern Europe except with black people, who shouldn't be forced to to go to licensed hair-care pros to pay someone to braid their hair. No, I'm not kidding.
Mike Shedlock:
Every government: local, state, and federal is way more fucked than you're being told... and here are 16 ten-color graphs to elucidate.
Zach Weinersmith:
Science, technology, and markets will lead to a sweet, freaky future of endless weird sex and limitless energy if we don't make one of a million possible universe-crushing mistakes.
Russ Roberts:
It's quite possible that every colleague of mine and every detractor of ours knows nothing that is true about economics, but I'll bet on markets and highly evolved Western institutions. Hayek {^_^} woot!
Well, your suggested one line summary is inherent to anyone with a background in process analysis, or process improvement.
When one has such a background, it becomes immediately obvious how it applies to EVERYTHING which is capable of being systemetized...
...which is pretty much everything EXCEPT human emotion.
Chris,
But the percentage of folks who don't get that approaches p=1 awful close.
Which is why I'm always going on about it.
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