As I mentioned in the welcome post, Substack suggested that I not paywall anything for the first two weeks. This is the end of the second week, so subscriber-only posts will start next week. Still figuring out how I want the regular schedule to look.
How has this not received many more comments? I feel like this is one of the most powerful and important things you've ever written, and I keep returning to it all the time.
Steel man. The mechanism is that real change requires changes in attitude before more material change can happen. Eg. if reparations were ever to happen they would require a large proportion of white people feeling white shame. Perhaps also something about moving to the left can drag the centre.
A model where this mechanism actually works requires some assumption heroics worthy of the man of steel himself, though.
Perhaps We Cannot Do Both
How has this not received many more comments? I feel like this is one of the most powerful and important things you've ever written, and I keep returning to it all the time.
Steel man. The mechanism is that real change requires changes in attitude before more material change can happen. Eg. if reparations were ever to happen they would require a large proportion of white people feeling white shame. Perhaps also something about moving to the left can drag the centre.
A model where this mechanism actually works requires some assumption heroics worthy of the man of steel himself, though.