When the going gets strange, the strange get going. Politics always has its share of irrational arguments, but a barrage of the bizarre often establishes a pattern. If you’ve seen it before, experience kicks in to tell you that it’s a much bigger argument than you might have otherwise thought. At some point you just have to accept the unexplainable for just what it is.
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Unheeded
Perhaps it’s just the waning warmth of summer closing around me like a blanket on a fall day, but I’ve had a feeling lately. Events have conspired to make me think about the long term perspective on what is going on in our world, the bigger picture that I like to think is what I do best. Digging into this feeling with a series of internet searches uncovered a wealth of information that I have to share so that, if nothing else, you can all make your own conclusions about things.
Jefferson versus Hamilton
I use Barataria to throw out a few ideas and new perspectives that I’m not entirely sure of myself. I hope you see this as a way of thinking out loud. Difficult social topics are rarely settled in one person’s mind, no matter how much they are mulled over. I want to take the time to tell you where I’ve been going with some of this and see what you think.
Sixteen Tons
I have proposed that understanding the connections that make up a system give us a greater insight into how that system will respond to the stresses of change than any kind of institutional or academic perspective. My readers have responded by demanding specific examples, so I thought I’d start with the big one: Health Care. The system we have was developed from the connections of a time that has long passed but once made sense. This becomes important because most of the current proposals reflect the connections of our time – meaning we could be making the same mistakes all over again.
Platform
What are we gonna do? If you read those of us who kvetch constantly about not just what’s wrong but exactly what’s wrong you probably get a kind of fatigue after a while. That’s understandable. I strongly believe that if you are in the business of pointing out the bad stuff you have an obligation to produce a credible way that it can be fixed – or else it’s just whining. While I’ve done my best to produce a framework for understanding how things can go wrong that includes ways to understand fixing the world, it requires a lot of working through the abstraction – and brain ache.
This is where I get specific. This is my platform.
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