Superb insights Angus. I particularly liked this: “The democratic risk here is quiet but real. A system that can explain failure but cannot anticipate it will eventually lose its authority to govern, even if its intentions remain sound.” Those two sentences can be applied far more widely too. For example, the inability to anticipate the potential of inequality to dramatically destabilise a political system. I would argue that being a day late and a dollar short in a New Zealand political context, is cultural. Culture after all simply means, the way things are around here.
Superb insights Angus. I particularly liked this: “The democratic risk here is quiet but real. A system that can explain failure but cannot anticipate it will eventually lose its authority to govern, even if its intentions remain sound.” Those two sentences can be applied far more widely too. For example, the inability to anticipate the potential of inequality to dramatically destabilise a political system. I would argue that being a day late and a dollar short in a New Zealand political context, is cultural. Culture after all simply means, the way things are around here.
Well put!