Some thinkers see that the world is far more insane than is acknowledged, and that our narratives about society, the future, or the self don’t make sense. They develop a theory to explain things.
Here’s a list of some of those theories (as I interpret them), explained in extremely concise terms as best as I could manage:
The List of Thinkers and Their Core Ideas:
1. Peter Singer
We would ruin expensive shoes to save a drowning child we walked by, but not forgo expensive shoes to sav...
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political polarization
Low-Hanging Fruit Policies That Don’t Get Implemented
Some policies seem like low-hanging fruit to benefit the US and its people, yet don’t get implemented. Why? It’s probably a combination of:
• political wars that pull things back and forth instead of moving forward
• voter confusion
• voters prioritizing other topics
• collective action problems
• they’re blocked by the few who are made worse off by them
• they are bad ideas, I’m wrong about them, or people’s values around them differ too much
Regardless of the reason, here...
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