Thread by @JoshuaCypess

1/ Reading my recent threads you can conclude "OMG it's so bad, how can we prevail"

I get that. I'm describing the rotted structure & bad systems b/c if it weren't so rotten, the GOP couldn't have gotten away with this evil.

2/ Put another way: if we fix the bad structure, this won't happen in the same way (maybe at all). It helps to be a systems thinker here, and since COVID has made most of you amateur epidemiologists, we can compare contagions

3/ The virus spreads in a certain way, when we understand how the virus works, we can slow or stop the mechanisms of spread and that will prevent damage.

As Fauci said, the virus tells us what we need to do to prevent contagion.

So: masks, 6 feet, good ventilation etc

4/ Stop the vector of disease, the disease will slow, maybe even die out. Systems are everywhere, structure is built in, but most people need to be trained to see them.

Some see structure naturally (like me), some are incapable of ever seeing them (#literalists)

5/ 2020 is a hellscape because the structures were rotten, not because of fate, it wasn't inevitable.

Fixing SCOTUS, fixing FoxNews & Facebook, is like wearing masks and washing hands.

6/ I'll describe the theory behind this later (I've clunkily & temporarily called it the Anthropic-Darwin Principle, which basically operationalizes the relationship b/w structure & function)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic…

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