The subtitle is 99 ideas for making the world a better place–starting right now. It is edited by Philip Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon. Idea #48 is an anti-outrage campaign.
Some very successful Internet/social businesses have been built and are sustained primarily by feeding the outrage beast. In the long run, this mindset only leads us to isolate and vilify each other, increasingly making those we disagree with the Other. It is time for an anti-outrage campaign. One way to make it happen would be for highly partisan people to start publishing true and fair information about their opponents. . .saying: “I don’t like this person, but here’s what they actually say and what they’re actually doing. And why.”
The book is cheap to download on Kindle. Actually, through April 7 it’s free. Most of the ideas in the book are more exotic than #48. Skimming the book led me to speculate that the editors’ approach for finding writers consisted of hanging out in mental institutions. Or with the rationality community. (Same thing?) They had me contribute idea #76.
Same damn thing
Political correctness not such a bad idea after all?
I moved from a place with government garbage collection to two private, competitive garbage collection companies. I think many progressives are ok with that, and might even be ok with government and business garbage collection competing for the same customers, though one never sees that. Rhetorically, it would be interesting to see how a progressive would draw a distinction between ideologically tolerable private garbage collection and ideologically problematic voucher / charter schools.