TRYING TO “FIT” DEMOCRACY —“Well, I guess that means there’s no way to disting

TRYING TO “FIT” DEMOCRACY

—“Well, I guess that means there’s no way to distinguish echo chambers from reality?”—Alan Levinovitz

It means that the only reality is reciprocity, and that people demonstrate demand for different paradigms that suit their degrees of agency. You and I can learn anything and do whatever we set our minds to. This is not true of, or possible for, all. Hence markets and law.

So, democracy then is limited to small groups with homogenous abilities, interests, and paradigms for the selection of priorities, rather than large heterogeneous groups with hetero abilities, interests, paradigms – hence markets. We must govern the people we have, not wish to.

Else we result in the current simmering civil war, with opposing group strategies, and a winner-take all government, over a territory and population the scale of empires. So we try to solve a problem of fitting,when the problem is the system we place faith in despite its failure.

Scientific reality exists, reciprocal reality exists, but the narratives we use to negotiate with one another given heterogeneous abilities and interests in an imperial population are not ‘real’ but imaginary and utilitarian. Science and law decide differences. Stories create opportunities for similarities.

(Giving you food for thought. -cheers)