How about a show each day or week that focuses only on the reality of the issues debated? The actual progress…

How about a show each day or week that focuses only on the reality of the issues debated? The actual progress against outcomes? A complete rejection of ‘he said, she said’ journalism? That asks only ‘ok, what’s happening in REALITY on this topic?’ No pollies, no activists. /1 https://t.co/zY0pZFmlLu

That strips away the irrelevant opinions and ideologies, and looks only at what’s actually happening. That ignores the daily populist team sports of humans mobilising different teams around different ideologies, using reality as fodder for their petty debates. /2

Yes, it sounds like ‘fact-checking’. Which gets no traction in populist politics already. Humans are social, reality will always be much less interesting to them than the machinations of their imitative rivalry in social groups. /3

It’ll always be more interesting to them who says something, than what the person is saying. And that’s necessary too, we have to imitate and emulate others, unless we all want to do everything ourselves. We have to *trust* others. And also, facts never speak for themselves. /4

They always need a spokesperson, to integrate the fact into social life. A scholar, for example. All of this makes it incredibly difficult to re-route discussion towards reality rather than the team sports. But there are ways. Entertaining ways, just waiting for the will. /end