I’ve been really enjoying the Citations Needed podcast; though I have to say that their topics are not “fun”; the enjoyment is intellectual, probably because I get a lot of little dopamine surges from my confirmation bias kicking in.
One of the things that creeps me out about Mayor Pete is the corporate consultant-gabble that he sometimes drops into. It makes sense: he worked for McKinsey in his 20s, as one of the drones in the giant cash-extractive machinery of big dollar consulting. That’s where he learned to proactively leverage his synergies, I bet. [stderr]
In 2009 I was a consultant to a company that produces cop cameras and nonlethal weapons. My remit was specific: they were setting up a cloud service and wanted a security design expert to review their system.
Whenever a system is set up to allow corruption, it becomes corrupt. This ought not to surprise anyone, since it’s pretty obvious that the people who set it up to become corrupt planned it that way.
What is a legitimate state? If you’ve been with this blog for the last couple of years, you’ll probably have encountered that question in a variety of forms. [stderr] It’s not as simple as it seems.
Here’s a candidate rule: any time you see an organization trying to enforce its own system of justice and discipline it is because:
When the media report on police crimes, they still use credulous language. What does that say?
Warning: Unsettling, Death, Gore, Cops killing people
What if your “good guys with guns” turn out to be the Keystone Kops?