should be more like the Swiss, atomized into a large number of tiny cantons run

http://theumlaut.com/2013/11/25/nassim-talebs-probabilistic-minarchism/”….we should be more like the Swiss, atomized into a large number of tiny cantons run on the basis of direct democracy. This is another way of bounding negative outcomes—any extremely bad local policy can only have an impact on a very limited number of people.”

Preaching to the Choir. However, this position is irreconcilably contradictory to the progressive self image and narrative: that we can do anything we can get away with and we will fix any negative outcomes later.

Conservatism is an anti-fragile social philosophy.

Progressivism is a fragile social philosophy.