I’m releasing 20 short videos about our collapsing institutions — and how they might be healed.
The website for the series is here.* https://t.co/CZ9ZA80qTm
They explore two complementary ideas — each rebalancing the way competition and cooperation are entangled within institutions.
1. Elections represent the people — but so do juries.
• Elections frame politics as contest, building polarisation and theatricality into the system’s DNA.
• Juries chosen by lottery frame it as the collective search for solutions most of us can live with.
2. Open competition for leadership amplifies dark triad of personality types at the extremes and predicates ALL representation on the self-assertion and self-interest of representatives.
• Leaving other human virtues unrewarded – listening to, involving and considering others.
• The alternative is ‘bottom-up meritocracy’. It delivered widely celebrated stability and competence to Venice’s republic for five hundred years and governs Wikipedia today.
And here's Rory and me discussing bottom-up meritocracy.
https://t.co/URMNClGCTD
Breathless commentary from the freakshow by which we run the county isn't my favourite genre, but why is @BernardKeane so much better at it than so many of the others. Viz:
"By demanding the immediate recall of parliament to rush through tighter laws and implement “in full” antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal’s bizarre set of unlawful and unconstitutional recommendations, including muzzling the press and stronger laws against hate speech, the Coalition was carefully putting in place a series of land mines — not for Anthony Albanese but for itself."
LOL
https://t.co/UhtQiQNPhm
@gastonreyno El peso welter como categoría puede morir si las peleas se vuelven como esta. La pelea más importante del año y la más aburrida. Volvió Tyron Woodly
@lexfridman@pmarca It would be great if you have @NGruen1 in your podcast. As an external to US, his views on democracy are something we Americans need to listen to
@Teo_0523@AgustinLaje@petrogustavo Total. Desfasado Agustín con esas últimas palabras. Petro se puede joder, pero fácilmente se lleva a 50 millones de colombianos por delante
@gastonreyno Viste que umar se quebró la mano desde el primer round? Merab también tenía una herida en el pie, abra que volver a enfrentar estos dos el próximo año