Comment by marginalia_nu
3 years ago
> We can design it. That is what Congress should be doing by passing laws.
They sure are passing laws, yet there has been repeated failures at affecting the desired change despite near unilateral agreement among the lawmakers about the direction of the desired change. This includes the war on drugs, the prohibition, and so on.
I'm not disputing these laws have some effect, I'm disputing the ability to envision an outcome, and pass a law such that it has the desired effect.
I'm just saying, we do have a system in place to make corrections. Because they have not been doing it, doesn't mean we can toss it all out and start over.
I'm not sure that would follow in the first place. If the thesis is that strong guidance over the shape and direction of a society is largely impossible, then starting over wouldn't really make much of a difference.