The wicked problems, and focus of ideological debates in most Western liberal democracies like Australia boils down to persuasion around the trade-offs in efficiency vs equity. There are pros and cons to each of those, independently of one another, let alone in trade-off. Though, political debates are frequently black and white (or ‘blue and green’, if you’re a sucker for over-ellaborations of what could have otherwise been a list of cognitive distortions. Not that being of a sucker for that is a bad thing. Persuasive devices of different kinds are used to persuading different audiences. Though, the audience here has evolved over several purges and I reckon the way it will fortuitiously head is towards intense information density, and standardisation (other than the more predictable trends that have been already identified and/or cultivated by others).
Facts are facts
-Australian Treasury
Ahem.
The wicked problems, and focus of ideological debates in most Western liberal democracies like Australia boils down to persuasion around the trade-offs in efficiency vs equity. There are pros and cons to each of those, independently of one another, let alone in trade-off. Though, political debates are frequently black and white (or ‘blue and green’, if you’re a sucker for over-ellaborations of what could have otherwise been a list of cognitive distortions. Not that being of a sucker for that is a bad thing. Persuasive devices of different kinds are used to persuading different audiences. Though, the audience here has evolved over several purges and I reckon the way it will fortuitiously head is towards intense information density, and standardisation (other than the more predictable trends that have been already identified and/or cultivated by others).