What’s interesting about these failures isn’t just the huge ideological gap between feelings and reality, but also the lack of an entrance strategy. They just do stuff and expect it to work. It’s like taking two handfuls of legos, mashing them together, and expecting a toy coffee shop or bicycle transit hub to come out.
There’s a lot of cargo cult thinking here.
Consider the example of transgenders in bathrooms. Even if mixing trans and cis-genders together is in the long run somehow natural and relatively drama-free, it’s not in the short term. Nobody in this story appears to have thought any about how to make it work or relatively acceptable. For example, if all your bathrooms are single person unisex, then it doesn’t matter how many different genders and transgenders use them. They can’t be bothered to come up with ways to make these schemes more acceptable.
The bit about why this happens is quite interesting. I think a better approach here would be considering the dynamics of the system rather. Consider a fire. Fires don’t just happen. You need a combination of things: a spark or other ignition event, fuel, and an oxygen source (or other oxydizer). Take any of those away, and it doesn’t happen. Some stuff is easier to prevent than others. Ignition events are notoriously hard to prevent though measures can be taken. Air is just about everywhere. So the real control is over the fuel separating it from oxygen source and ignition events.
Similarly, we can ask what’s fueling the “going woke” thing? My take is other peoples’ money in the form of taxes, endowments, and managed accounts like pension funds. Lot’s of people have goofy ideologies and goals. When it’s their money at stake, it’s just a weird thing – like modding cars. If the CEO of Planet Fitness were expends large amounts of his company’s resources to roll coal, we’d be complaining about that too.
It’s the leveraging of vast amounts of other peoples’ wealth and resources that turns weird hobbies into societal problems.
I hope Planet Fitness falls next.
What’s interesting about these failures isn’t just the huge ideological gap between feelings and reality, but also the lack of an entrance strategy. They just do stuff and expect it to work. It’s like taking two handfuls of legos, mashing them together, and expecting a toy coffee shop or bicycle transit hub to come out.
There’s a lot of cargo cult thinking here.
Consider the example of transgenders in bathrooms. Even if mixing trans and cis-genders together is in the long run somehow natural and relatively drama-free, it’s not in the short term. Nobody in this story appears to have thought any about how to make it work or relatively acceptable. For example, if all your bathrooms are single person unisex, then it doesn’t matter how many different genders and transgenders use them. They can’t be bothered to come up with ways to make these schemes more acceptable.
The bit about why this happens is quite interesting. I think a better approach here would be considering the dynamics of the system rather. Consider a fire. Fires don’t just happen. You need a combination of things: a spark or other ignition event, fuel, and an oxygen source (or other oxydizer). Take any of those away, and it doesn’t happen. Some stuff is easier to prevent than others. Ignition events are notoriously hard to prevent though measures can be taken. Air is just about everywhere. So the real control is over the fuel separating it from oxygen source and ignition events.
Similarly, we can ask what’s fueling the “going woke” thing? My take is other peoples’ money in the form of taxes, endowments, and managed accounts like pension funds. Lot’s of people have goofy ideologies and goals. When it’s their money at stake, it’s just a weird thing – like modding cars. If the CEO of Planet Fitness were expends large amounts of his company’s resources to roll coal, we’d be complaining about that too.
It’s the leveraging of vast amounts of other peoples’ wealth and resources that turns weird hobbies into societal problems.