I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
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"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is […]
"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
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Do you want to spend your time holding up something that's going to get you in the end anyway? Or do you want to join me join us in moving into the future and then we can get on with the process of deciding how we want this thing to work. So it becomes an argument, a default argument in favor of going with the flow of things against trying to stand in their way. But that's a big assumption. I mean, there's often quite good reason to not go with the flow of things actually, it doesn't make you a reactionary. But that seems to be pretty much everywhere when this concept moves from being a descriptive term for a complex process to being a way of saying this is what we should do. And it's certainly true now, I think.
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