bambamramfan

While I don’t agree with much of it, it occurred to me that anyone engaging in these debates about “what the Democratic party should focus on” and ideology in general, should at least be familiar with this post from David Chapman.

mitigatedchaos

Haha, fun read.  It occurs to me that in some worldbuilding I’ve been doing, I already split the cultural functions of government off from the boring policy functions, divided between royalty made of formally-recognized national heroes and a subtly, quietly terrifying postcyberpunk state bureaucracy that had what we would think of as prediction markets in the 1980s, and is now using what comes beyond that.