Friday, August 3, 2012

evolving narratives

Weak, confusing or ill-posed choices/statements/questions, with ways to move past them, might include...

  • Drop "Choose one: mano-a-mano OR state-paid healthcare." for "Nurture responsible health-management for & by all citizens.",
  • Trade "Organisms do/don't evolve?" (since replicable-codes do that instead) up to "How do code-organism systems change over time?",
  • Replace "Either un-tax the rich, or give money to nuts." with "Spend group-funds on well-defined social-goals with checks/balances.",
  • Change "Mass increases with speed." into "Proper (not coordinate) time/speed/acceleration underlie dynamics when v ~ c.",
  • Substitute "Choose one: support abortion OR prevent birth control." with "Help avoid unwanted pregnancies and abortions.", 
  • Exchange "entropy increases" for "correlations decrease" over time, with sub-systems from which you are isolated.
  • ...and what else?
Once folks agree on a set of objectives, and are mature enough to put aside gratuitous-cartoonification of one other, different ideas about tactics and strategy for meeting those objectives can be addressed by testing and observation over time.