Tag: political pandering
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Becoming Wiser
This is the fifth and last entry in a miniseries about wisdom. Most of this wisdom miniseries focused on collective wisdom. We can achieve collective wisdom by removing barriers such as systemic bias and misinformation. Elections or referendums then aggregate the knowledge of an electorate. Yet we can enhance our collective wisdom further by becoming
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Systemic Party Bias
This is the fourth entry for a miniseries about wisdom. I am an unaffiliated citizen. Parents belonging to different parties contributed to my independence, as did the tendency of the parties to change principles. During my lifetime the parties switched over “shock and awe” tactics. They switched over choice and abortion. They switched over state
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Collective Wisdom Conditions
This is the third entry in a miniseries about collective wisdom. In The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki detailed the four conditions for collecting wisdom from a population. People must think independently of each other, no groupthink. Their thinking must be decentralized, not influenced by a centralized authority. Such conditions allow for collecting a diversity
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