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PS: part of the problem is the ideological-position, that conforming-with-opinion is the only valid option, & the alternative is being-against..
whereas in Science, diversity-of-perpsective is how we outsmart ignorance, & how we win.
That objectivity, that taking-multiple-perspectives, has to be IN our culture, for us to win.
Otherwise, it's only this-conforming against that-conforming, ideology vs ideology, & that's just herdbeast-herds-butting-heads-with-extra-steps.
Externalizing issues, de-politicizing them, so that people can SEE that losing-food-security-produces-migrations-and-wars, & it has nothing whatsoever to do with being "woke" or not: it's a SYSTMS question..
that kind of thing's required, too, but no discussion-forum is coded to provide the required-means, so .. that potential dies, the way we're doing things.
Too bad, it'd have been nice to be more-viable, but if it "can't be afforded", then Status Quo will have to be our epitaph, right?
< shruggeth >
Sociopolitical-strongarming prefers emotionally-loaded "debate", whereas issues are things that just are, even when we're ignoring them, & that requires a totally-different method-for-mitigating-the-problems-living-in-them.
Without sociopolitical-strongarming. & making that the proper place for issues to be seen/discussed, so that there'd be none of the "just keep in your head the context & the principles, & fight over whatever it is that you're currently-remembering" .. instead it's all caused to be more rational.
That is a whole-society problem, though: countries which could have been saved by such a change, die, groups too, regions too..
It's the same principle that Stephen R. Covey identified, decades ago, when he pointed it out that the lowest-3%-in-effectiveness didn't externalize their goals, but the top-1% all of them did.
Countries need to externalize the issues, in issue-diagrams, instances need to do the same, industries, projects, communities, regions, etc, as a standard method for de-toxifying things & making the problem and not the politics be what people are concentrating into correcting.
Whatever..
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