I am wondering. Can we find ways of institutionalizing humility? Maybe we could invent some rituals where those in power appear on TV and humble themselves? This sounds ridiculous but if we take it as a metaphor one could perhaps fill it in with meaningful proposals ...
A certain contingent within our political leadership especially is incapable of feeling shame. All you'd get is a PERFORMANCE of 'shame', but they'd never actually feel it...
What we NEED is an organization of journalists and sleuths tasked with vetting democratic candidates before they run for office...I could TOTALLY get behind a gofundme funded organization like that. As the republican brand continues to sour we should expect to see a LOT more Trojan Horse infiltrations from RW trash...Good vetting would have kept that fucking turncoat freak Tricia Cotham from handing the Rs a supermajority in NC...And perhaps could have saved us from Sinema
By the way, do you know Nomic by Peter Suber, a game with rules to change rules? http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm#initial%20set ... I once played this in class with my students and keep thinking that there is more to learn from this ... if you have any ideas on this I'd be interested.
"the most valuable quality in someone charged with enforcing rules is humility"
I like that.
I am wondering. Can we find ways of institutionalizing humility? Maybe we could invent some rituals where those in power appear on TV and humble themselves? This sounds ridiculous but if we take it as a metaphor one could perhaps fill it in with meaningful proposals ...
A certain contingent within our political leadership especially is incapable of feeling shame. All you'd get is a PERFORMANCE of 'shame', but they'd never actually feel it...
What we NEED is an organization of journalists and sleuths tasked with vetting democratic candidates before they run for office...I could TOTALLY get behind a gofundme funded organization like that. As the republican brand continues to sour we should expect to see a LOT more Trojan Horse infiltrations from RW trash...Good vetting would have kept that fucking turncoat freak Tricia Cotham from handing the Rs a supermajority in NC...And perhaps could have saved us from Sinema
By the way, do you know Nomic by Peter Suber, a game with rules to change rules? http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm#initial%20set ... I once played this in class with my students and keep thinking that there is more to learn from this ... if you have any ideas on this I'd be interested.