September 19th, 2020
- re solutions are way harder than problems, I started drafting a tweet but it got long & complex:
- I regularly remind myself that when people or ideologies say "this is messed up":
- they're almost always right that *something* is borked
- they usually have at least a little insight into what
- no matter how clarifying or mindblowing their description of the problem, 99%+ of proposed solutions are complete nonstarters - Maybe another, even shorter way to put this is "Not liking someone's solution doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. Most solutions are junk."
- Although how I *actually* want to frame it is "just because someone can convince you there's a problem, doesn't mean you have to accept their solution"
- Here we go:
- Accepting that something is a problem does not require accepting any proposed solutions.
99% of described problems are real and important, at least in some sense. 99% of proposed solutions are at best irrelevant and at worst actively would exacerbate things. - (tweeted this)