There are plenty of "weird paradoxes" all over the place. Like clueless snake oil salesmen advocating for "clean renewable energy" in a "grass roots campaign" with no grass roots.
I am noticing how much ‘news’ coverage is (very often) neurotic speculation. This is possibly because so many people in charge of politics and culture are obsessed with control and hostile to any principle that might interfere with it.
I agree. Some effects of this are eg the spotlight effect, when something gets more coverage that coverage also becomes less useful and more biased. And some I call the greedy algorithm effect, an issue of analysing each move and commenting on it makes people focus on doing the daily dance, rather than taking a breather to effectively answer the larger policy question.
"This unveils a weird paradox in politics"
There are plenty of "weird paradoxes" all over the place. Like clueless snake oil salesmen advocating for "clean renewable energy" in a "grass roots campaign" with no grass roots.
Really sound piece.
I am noticing how much ‘news’ coverage is (very often) neurotic speculation. This is possibly because so many people in charge of politics and culture are obsessed with control and hostile to any principle that might interfere with it.
I agree. Some effects of this are eg the spotlight effect, when something gets more coverage that coverage also becomes less useful and more biased. And some I call the greedy algorithm effect, an issue of analysing each move and commenting on it makes people focus on doing the daily dance, rather than taking a breather to effectively answer the larger policy question.