[ExI] what to do politics

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 22:22:32 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So - run based on pr and Hollywood, and govern based on scientific data, or
> at least as close as you can come.

It is entirely possible to do both.  In some ways it's even easier
than doing just one or the other: doing Hollywood PR based on
observable scientific facts means the audience needs no suspension of
disbelief.

Of course, you have to do it well.  Most people don't care enough to
try, or know that they can.  It does require skill at communicating
the science so that people won't make too much of the exceptions,
glitches, and oddities (such as that global warming is far from evenly
distributed, so it doesn't always mean local warming - but it does
mean more extreme weather in most cases, ice cap melting, and so on).

But no, most people only bother with communicating lies well (but lies
only last so long) or communicating facts poorly (and getting easily
misinterpreted).



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