• Is This How Political Collapse Will Unfold?

• Dave Pollard

• Aug 3, 2023

• 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.

definition

• 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.

• 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’.
• references
• Aurélien
  • https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/reality-would-like-a-word
• 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"

• 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.