I also agree that the modern world is very confusing if you have low capacity to deal with stuff (for whatever reason), it’s something I think about in our work on democracy a lot.
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Democracy has always had to simplify and condense people's choices (why we have representatives and political parties at all!) but I think the 5-6 broad categories of political thought we can mentally process now fail to capture all the complexity that a government has to negotiate.
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 3 0 • view
And for whatever reason is important. Some things are difficult because people have failed to understand something, others are difficult because they haven't had the time to.
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 1 • view