The Archivist
26 July 2024 · 20:22 UTC

Imagine a political party whose entire focus was fixing known problems. No routing them through ideological…

Imagine a political party whose entire focus was fixing known problems. No routing them through ideological frameworks. Just ‘this needs to be fixed, we’ll implement best practice known ways to fix it’. With not one cent to anything else, until the problems are fixed. /1
Post 2 of 5 · 26 July 2024 · 20:22 UTC
No Left. No Right. Ideology warriors can retire to coffee shops to have their juvenile debates over bodies of ideas often centuries old and irrelevant. Just fixing problems. Rather than using the problems as fuel for team sports. /2
Post 3 of 5 · 26 July 2024 · 20:22 UTC
Reframe how you see democracy. As a populist, unneeded barrier between problems and their resolution. A barrier of having to make something popular, to get it done. As if that matters. /3
Post 4 of 5 · 26 July 2024 · 20:22 UTC
Popularity is not a means to an end. It’s an end. Feeding only itself, in increasingly hysterical cycles of fads and fashions. Fuelled by the idiot DNA of these platforms. There are simple, calm solutions to all of our problems. Known solutions. Sitting there in the shed. /4
Post 5 of 5 · 26 July 2024 · 20:22 UTC
While we play team sports here every day. Thinking the winning team will go to the shed and get the solutions. They never do. They celebrate victory in the team sports and prepare for the next popularity Superbowl. /end

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