Harper was hired by a petro-hegemony actor to dump Canada as far into the resource extraction trap as possible. We still don't know who did so; I don't think it was a state actor, I think it was a pure corporate. (Royal Dutch Shell, if I had to pick.)
That's someone who expects measurable material results.
EVERYBODY who is looking at quantified anything and can keep their brain from going la-la-la is aware were at a historical disjunction; one way or another, we're coming off the Carbon Binge. At this point, we're coming off the Carbon Binge without agriculture. No movement, no necessary ethnogenesis, has coalesced around how to do that. But what is clear is that traditional approaches aren't going to work.
Everybody running for traditional approaches -- and Ford is so traditional that they'd fit in fine as a neolithic Big Man autocrat -- is too limited in some way to get that there's an inevitable historical disjunction happening. They're insisting willpower beats physics.
This does awful things to the field of conservative politicians; the rank-and-file haven't adjusted yet, and pick based on feels. (Ford is making policy based on feels.) As you're entirely well aware, you can't make policy on feels in an expectation of predictable results. But if they accept quantified analysis, they have to accept that they're wrong about everything, and they literally can't.
It's closely related to the general education problem that a third of the population purely can't deal with abstraction at all; they can't do it. So they vote their feels, and they're scared and they're aware they're getting old and poorer and their resulting feels are not generous hopeful ones. (General poverty is a great way to get people to support wealth concentration. It's really weird how that works.) Ford is general social panic's id.
It's a lot to ask competence out of general social panic's id.
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Date: 2018-07-21 05:53 pm (UTC)That's someone who expects measurable material results.
EVERYBODY who is looking at quantified anything and can keep their brain from going la-la-la is aware were at a historical disjunction; one way or another, we're coming off the Carbon Binge. At this point, we're coming off the Carbon Binge without agriculture. No movement, no necessary ethnogenesis, has coalesced around how to do that. But what is clear is that traditional approaches aren't going to work.
Everybody running for traditional approaches -- and Ford is so traditional that they'd fit in fine as a neolithic Big Man autocrat -- is too limited in some way to get that there's an inevitable historical disjunction happening. They're insisting willpower beats physics.
This does awful things to the field of conservative politicians; the rank-and-file haven't adjusted yet, and pick based on feels. (Ford is making policy based on feels.) As you're entirely well aware, you can't make policy on feels in an expectation of predictable results. But if they accept quantified analysis, they have to accept that they're wrong about everything, and they literally can't.
It's closely related to the general education problem that a third of the population purely can't deal with abstraction at all; they can't do it. So they vote their feels, and they're scared and they're aware they're getting old and poorer and their resulting feels are not generous hopeful ones. (General poverty is a great way to get people to support wealth concentration. It's really weird how that works.) Ford is general social panic's id.
It's a lot to ask competence out of general social panic's id.