Thinkers Who Say the World Is Insane

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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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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