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Comment by trollbridge

3 months ago

Having lived in the U.S. for a while, it's apparent the purpose of a hospital is "provide big salaries to top administrators and executives whilst providing enough health care that they can get away with it".

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robocat  3 months ago

We all seem to love to be one-dimensional: simplifying down a story from a spectrum to a trite summary.

POSIWID is about finding a single "purpose" and defining that as the apex reason for a system (usually to manipulate).

I'm not sure how we have more balanced discussions.

  reductionism: squashing a many-layered phenomenon into a single tidy cause
  framing: choosing one angle of a story and strawmanning or deflecting.
  false dichotomy: where every shade of gray is lost.
  single-axis narratives: narrative manipulation where you steer the public to think along just one line (whatever works — economic, moral, tribal).