Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

This is a longer piece, but I was captivated by it and there are some great quotes. Worth spending the time on.

"Improving the quality of debate, shifting people’s mindsets from transmission to collaborative truth-seeking, is a painful process. It has to be done one person at a time, it only works on people who are already almost ready for it, and you will pick up far fewer warm bodies per hour of work than with any of the other methods. But in an otherwise-random world, even a little purposeful action can make a difference. Convincing 2% of people would have flipped three of the last four US presidential elections. And this is a capacity to win-for-reasons-other-than-coincidence that you can’t build any other way."


http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/