Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ...
by colechristensen on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:07PM
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Here's the problem:
People want to, but are very bad at caring about quality.
For whatever subject, there will be a sort of platonic ideal -- and this ideal won't be the same for everyone as there is room for taste and priorities. BUT what that ideal actually is depends on a whole lot of subtlety and understanding... especially accounting for the marginally different outcomes for a different set of priorities which you get in diversity of cultures.
Instead, you get extremism. There are a few people talking about real quality who are completely drowned out by people who generally know quite a bit less who want quality but don't understand it and opt instead for maximizing or minimizing some value. (i.e. the practice of preventing all forest fires, defund/abolish the police, prohibition, etc.)
People can't handle subtlety or disagreeing with someone to a small degree.
This is the trend, absolutism, not understanding details, and yelling loudly about everything.
Try to get into a conversation about COVID-19 about actual risks and thresholds for certain actions and you'll either get complete deniers or advocates for every precaution (preferably forced on everyone at every level of possible control).
How do you silence the loudest people on the extremes without simply being authoritarian?
People want to, but are very bad at caring about quality.
For whatever subject, there will be a sort of platonic ideal -- and this ideal won't be the same for everyone as there is room for taste and priorities. BUT what that ideal actually is depends on a whole lot of subtlety and understanding... especially accounting for the marginally different outcomes for a different set of priorities which you get in diversity of cultures.
Instead, you get extremism. There are a few people talking about real quality who are completely drowned out by people who generally know quite a bit less who want quality but don't understand it and opt instead for maximizing or minimizing some value. (i.e. the practice of preventing all forest fires, defund/abolish the police, prohibition, etc.)
People can't handle subtlety or disagreeing with someone to a small degree.
This is the trend, absolutism, not understanding details, and yelling loudly about everything.
Try to get into a conversation about COVID-19 about actual risks and thresholds for certain actions and you'll either get complete deniers or advocates for every precaution (preferably forced on everyone at every level of possible control).
How do you silence the loudest people on the extremes without simply being authoritarian?