NEW BLOG POST: Uncertain superlatives
Guest post by Emery Roe in our #PoliticsOfUncertainty series, exploring *certainty* and how it can create the belief that a choice made is 'superlative' (i.e. the 'best, superior or optimal course of action')
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
Guest post by Emery Roe in our #PoliticsOfUncertainty series, exploring *certainty* and how it can create the belief that a choice made is 'superlative' (i.e. the 'best, superior or optimal course of action')
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
"A key part of the challenge of a politics of uncertainty is to insist superior and superlative are still achievable, and not in a diminished sense of the economist’s 'second best.'"
"Certainty can truly mislead... Nothing quite smacks of certainty as do habits, inhibitions and defense mechanisms."
"The impossible is never perforce a bar to action in the face of uncertainty... We might well be in a position to do something but not know it until we start trying."
"Uncertainty is real and unavoidable and that this “certainty of uncertainty” looks nothing like the certainties offered up by the political class and deskoid pundits."
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
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