Politicians everywhere seem doomed to repeat their mistakes. There is another way
The democratic world is stuck in a self-destructive, self-reinforcing loop: unforced policy errors lead to desperate gambles both by politicians and voters, leading to yet more unforced policy errors. I think it’s safe to say that there is room for improvement.
To a certain kind of person, there is something very appealing about the idea of technocrats running randomised trials to discover the best way to run schools or prisons or traffic calming. Campbell was definitely that kind of person, as am I. But Campbell understood that his utopia, his “experimenting society”, had to embody something more fundamental than that. He listed some of the values he had in mind.
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