(John and I just chatted offline, and a point of confusion we resolved was that I thought John was saying something like “the majority people in the house who are able to do thinking better should take over the thinking for the people who are too overwhelmed to think”, but the thing he meant was more like* “the people who are having trouble thinking should proactively find a person to be their lawyer, and/or help them think. Their “lawyer” should be whoever they trust most to help them.” Which is a pretty different frame.
I happen to not think this would have worked very well – I think a key problem was that everyone was overwhelmed at once, so there was nobody you trusted to be your lawyer who actually had bandwidth to do so. But, this is more of a straightforward factual constraint than a deep disagreement. I agree that looking for people to help you think, and/or represent you at house meetings, is a useful approach in some cases)
*I’m not 100% sure I represented his viewpoint well here.
(John and I just chatted offline, and a point of confusion we resolved was that I thought John was saying something like “the majority people in the house who are able to do thinking better should take over the thinking for the people who are too overwhelmed to think”, but the thing he meant was more like* “the people who are having trouble thinking should proactively find a person to be their lawyer, and/or help them think. Their “lawyer” should be whoever they trust most to help them.” Which is a pretty different frame.
I happen to not think this would have worked very well – I think a key problem was that everyone was overwhelmed at once, so there was nobody you trusted to be your lawyer who actually had bandwidth to do so. But, this is more of a straightforward factual constraint than a deep disagreement. I agree that looking for people to help you think, and/or represent you at house meetings, is a useful approach in some cases)
*I’m not 100% sure I represented his viewpoint well here.
Endorsed.