Carter and Mason are of course right, but how in practice does one just "loose" consciousness of "race." And what happens if some do and others do not loose that consciousness? Surely is cannot be pretending that "race" in the here and now does not exists and affect social outcomes.
But don't most Republican politicians have more degrees than their median voter? This seems like a completely different problem from staff management. Identity politics works better for Republicans than Democrats because they have fewer identities to manage.
I’ll also clarify “find themselves”. Everyone in the arts (except for instrumentalists, who need only show up for auditions and play behind a screen) spends most of their time promoting themselves and their organizations to other arts people, to dilettantes, to board members, to fellow employees, to donors, and to the public at large.
"What should you do with these entitled brats in staff positions ... "
The issue here is actually an extension of Gurri's insightful observation about the diminished strength of elite narrative control. But it's not just 'narratives', it's 'control' in general! That is, there has been a serious weakening of traditional mechanisms of group behavioral control across the board - a kind of sudden widespread depreciation of organizational capital - and the assurance of party discipline in just one manifestation of this general problem. I'd like to see Gurri run with that and give his speculations on why he thinks this may have happened.
I've written here before that it's something I've seen at work, a consequence of which has been a near total breakdown in the capacity to delegate and coordinate across the boundary between inner circle and merely near-inner-circle. This is part of a shift to a low-trust equilibrium, because leaders can't trust that things won't get leaked and that subordinates will be disciplined and put 'loyalty' to leaders and 'the cause' ahead of personal complaints, disputes, or opportunities for gain.
Likewise, see how much trouble the Democrat insiders seem to have lately in getting everyone in the left-o-sphere on the same sheet of music. There is obviously some kind core, strategically sophisticated element that cares deeply about winning elections and thus what the polls say, and who are willing to compromise as necessary for the sake of expediency if those polls say the left is going too far and pissing off too many swing voters. Which might, you know, get a Republican governor elected in Virginia as an unforced error. For example, there was a whole week where focus was on the "popularists" like Shor and Klein and, it's clear to me anyway, Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic.
The polls say that even marginal Democrats are really fed up with the covid stuff,, and also the CRT in schools stuff, and also worried about inflation and crime. So it has become important to use the various party mouthpieces to communicate to their side's free radicals when they need to cool it, bite their tongues, and exercise some patience and discipline for a while, or else, all turn on a dime spontaneously with "We have always been at war with EastAsia."
But it seems that these elites are having much more trouble than usual getting the worms to go back in the can they opened, and that the worms take on lives of their own once unleashed from their tin prison. In particular, political elites on the left and their mouthpieces have not yet been able to make much of a dent in the covid-alarm permanent-emergency mindset in their efforts to convince people to get with the new program and let them throttle public policy back to normalcy lest they get crushed in the next election.
Perhaps this is less 'related' and more simply a direct consequence of classical Gurri narrative-control-weakening, such that if you can't control the narrative and your audience keeps getting a stream of messages on social media contrary to what you want them to think, then your coordination costs just went sky high and you can't get everyone to shift to a new position for common benefit.
I note Hanania brings up whether one can trust any reported statistics from the CCP, then brushes the concern away as though that isn't a problem at all. Shortly afterwards, Americans simultaneously fear the Chinese and want to keep them down and believe they are not doing nearly so well as the Chinese claim to be... it seems unlikely for both of those thing to be true, at least within the same person or group. One wouldn't make that claim about how Americans feel about North Korea. I sometimes wonder if he thinks these things through.
“ Recall that I proposed a strong Chief Auditor function for the U.S.”
Citing the Communist Party of China in support of that proposition seems troublesome for a self-identified libertarian, since I’d expect you to say that China’s government is overly robust in some respects (that are important for libertarians) and still fragile in others.
Carter and Mason are of course right, but how in practice does one just "loose" consciousness of "race." And what happens if some do and others do not loose that consciousness? Surely is cannot be pretending that "race" in the here and now does not exists and affect social outcomes.
But don't most Republican politicians have more degrees than their median voter? This seems like a completely different problem from staff management. Identity politics works better for Republicans than Democrats because they have fewer identities to manage.
I’ll also clarify “find themselves”. Everyone in the arts (except for instrumentalists, who need only show up for auditions and play behind a screen) spends most of their time promoting themselves and their organizations to other arts people, to dilettantes, to board members, to fellow employees, to donors, and to the public at large.
"What should you do with these entitled brats in staff positions ... "
The issue here is actually an extension of Gurri's insightful observation about the diminished strength of elite narrative control. But it's not just 'narratives', it's 'control' in general! That is, there has been a serious weakening of traditional mechanisms of group behavioral control across the board - a kind of sudden widespread depreciation of organizational capital - and the assurance of party discipline in just one manifestation of this general problem. I'd like to see Gurri run with that and give his speculations on why he thinks this may have happened.
I've written here before that it's something I've seen at work, a consequence of which has been a near total breakdown in the capacity to delegate and coordinate across the boundary between inner circle and merely near-inner-circle. This is part of a shift to a low-trust equilibrium, because leaders can't trust that things won't get leaked and that subordinates will be disciplined and put 'loyalty' to leaders and 'the cause' ahead of personal complaints, disputes, or opportunities for gain.
Likewise, see how much trouble the Democrat insiders seem to have lately in getting everyone in the left-o-sphere on the same sheet of music. There is obviously some kind core, strategically sophisticated element that cares deeply about winning elections and thus what the polls say, and who are willing to compromise as necessary for the sake of expediency if those polls say the left is going too far and pissing off too many swing voters. Which might, you know, get a Republican governor elected in Virginia as an unforced error. For example, there was a whole week where focus was on the "popularists" like Shor and Klein and, it's clear to me anyway, Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic.
The polls say that even marginal Democrats are really fed up with the covid stuff,, and also the CRT in schools stuff, and also worried about inflation and crime. So it has become important to use the various party mouthpieces to communicate to their side's free radicals when they need to cool it, bite their tongues, and exercise some patience and discipline for a while, or else, all turn on a dime spontaneously with "We have always been at war with EastAsia."
But it seems that these elites are having much more trouble than usual getting the worms to go back in the can they opened, and that the worms take on lives of their own once unleashed from their tin prison. In particular, political elites on the left and their mouthpieces have not yet been able to make much of a dent in the covid-alarm permanent-emergency mindset in their efforts to convince people to get with the new program and let them throttle public policy back to normalcy lest they get crushed in the next election.
Perhaps this is less 'related' and more simply a direct consequence of classical Gurri narrative-control-weakening, such that if you can't control the narrative and your audience keeps getting a stream of messages on social media contrary to what you want them to think, then your coordination costs just went sky high and you can't get everyone to shift to a new position for common benefit.
The gender divide establish by Lyons would imply that in orchestras women would typically be found on the podium surrounded by male instrumentalists.
I note Hanania brings up whether one can trust any reported statistics from the CCP, then brushes the concern away as though that isn't a problem at all. Shortly afterwards, Americans simultaneously fear the Chinese and want to keep them down and believe they are not doing nearly so well as the Chinese claim to be... it seems unlikely for both of those thing to be true, at least within the same person or group. One wouldn't make that claim about how Americans feel about North Korea. I sometimes wonder if he thinks these things through.
“ Recall that I proposed a strong Chief Auditor function for the U.S.”
Citing the Communist Party of China in support of that proposition seems troublesome for a self-identified libertarian, since I’d expect you to say that China’s government is overly robust in some respects (that are important for libertarians) and still fragile in others.