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18 August 2012

look at what I found Project Syndicate, "commentaries from the world's top economists and geopolitical strategists." It's interesting and all but I'm beginning to be very skeptical of collections of elite technocrats1. The more interested I get in my surroundings in India the more I realize everything here is a fractal of injustice all the way down. And I'm not even sure the urban westernized layer on top of a huge populace are even representative enough of everyone else to have a moral right to start reinventing everything. Put the chaos of our human systems together with the unrepresentative nature of jetsetting think-tank phds and this top-down systems-driven approach to things becomes useless.[More:]

I came across an interesting term about the different bottom up approach to things: subsidiarity. I'm not saying it's a panacea cause when an environment is broken and unjust you can't just relegate power to the localized authorities if you want to make a transitional change across a people but the commitment and buy-in / pragmatic pilot projects have to start from the local level at least

1 I would say 'technocratic douchebags' but remembered that I've decided that this word 'douchebag' is one of contemporary culture's deep failures alongside Reality TV and autotune

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