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- Aug 2023
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howtosavetheworld.ca howtosavetheworld.ca
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- for: polycrisis, collapse, tweedledums, tweedledees, wicked problem, social mess, stuck, stuckness, complexity
- title
- Is This How Political Collapse Will Unfold?
- author
- Dave Pollard
- date
- Aug 3, 2023
- comment
- thought provoking
- honest, diverse, open thinking
- a good piece of writing to submit to SRG / Deep Humanity analysis for surfacing insights
- adjacency
- complexity
- emptiness
- stuckness
- this word "stuckness" stuck out in me (no pun intended) today - so many intractable, stuck problems, at all levels of society, because we oversimplify complexity to the point of harmful abstraction.
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definition
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Tweedledums
- This is a Reactionary Caste that believes that salvation lies in a return to a non-existent nostalgic past, characterized by respect for
- authority,
- order,
- hierarchy,
- individual initiative, and
- ‘traditional’ ways of doing things,
- governed by a
- strict,
- lean,
- paternalistic elite
- that leaves as much as possible up to individual families guided by
- established ‘family values’ and
- by their interpretation of the will of their god.
- This is a Reactionary Caste that believes that salvation lies in a return to a non-existent nostalgic past, characterized by respect for
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Tweedledees
- This is a PM (Professional-Managerial) Caste that believes that salvation lies in striving for an impossibly idealistic future characterized by
- mutual care,
- affluence
- relative equality for all,
- governed by a
- kind,
- thoughtful,
- educated,
- informed and
- representative
- elite that appreciates the role of public institutions and regulations, and is guided by principles of
- humanism and
- ‘fairness’.
- This is a PM (Professional-Managerial) Caste that believes that salvation lies in striving for an impossibly idealistic future characterized by
- references
- Aurélien
- source
- led here by reading Dave Pollard's other article
- https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2021/09/13/something-better-than-democracy/
- which was the result of a Google search on "better than democracy"
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howtosavetheworld.ca howtosavetheworld.ca
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- for: democracy, governance, alternative governance
- title
- Something Better Than Democracy
- author
- Dave Pollard
- date Sept 13, 2023
- source
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