Can “the direction things are going” not go anywhere?
It can also not go anywhere, but (at the individual narrative level) it’s usually been walked before by big chunks of the population, so there’s pretty high confidence that it’s not a dead end.
So people usually come up with a vision and then don’t check if it will work, instead of just finding out what will work?
I think I’d prefer to be a bit more charitable: it seems plausibly very difficult to tell if something new will work in advance without actually trying it. But certainly rebels don’t tend to pitch their visions with enough epistemic humility: “here’s a new form of government we’d like to experimentally try” vs “here’s a new form of government that will solve all our problems”?
It can also not go anywhere, but (at the individual narrative level) it’s usually been walked before by big chunks of the population, so there’s pretty high confidence that it’s not a dead end.
I think I’d prefer to be a bit more charitable: it seems plausibly very difficult to tell if something new will work in advance without actually trying it. But certainly rebels don’t tend to pitch their visions with enough epistemic humility: “here’s a new form of government we’d like to experimentally try” vs “here’s a new form of government that will solve all our problems”?