Thursday, February 6, 2014

Democracy must 'quantify'.

Rendering abstractions into real, practical results is not easy. Nevertheless, the only manner of 'giving' real results in government is to 'quantify'. This is not the same thing as quantification in mathematics, geometry or computer science. Here, we have to be careful. Human beings are NOT numbers. Computer science certainly involves a 'form' of quantification, but before that became possible, technologists had to create a 'new computer language'. Much like the language of science, computers had to formulate a basic quantification of the phonetic alphabet. Computer language is not subject to the so-called Linguistic Turn, but the triadic Governmental structures must circumvent the Linguistic turn because governing is a 'representational' process. Political 'language' or political obfuscation already used language for the sole purpose of 'misleading', even without the need to refer to the problems created by the Turn. We could say, 'political obfuscation' took a Linguistic Turn a long time ago. Politics was 'using' the 'Linguistic Turn' long before the origin of the Linguistic Turn. Hence, the political problematic. The relation between the Top and the Bottom of the governing process is similar to an individual 'thinking' of 'doing' something and then, either, doing it, or, not doing it. The road to implementation has a 'wide gap' and that gap is fraught with many 'difficulties','reasons', or 'obstacles'. Such is the case with the act of governing. Some of the intervening problems are divisions into Parties, 'Party loyalty', the need for 'new practices', the need for new 'institutions', and of course, the many linguistic, political shenanigans of political campaigning. Every policy or law has a 'receipt-iant', i.e. someone to whom it applies or who receives. That, or those, receipt-iants must be quantified, i.e., they must be 'counted'. If a policy applies to 'workers', it applies to all workers. Count them and insure they're all included. If a policy applies to all 'marriage', count them and insure all such institutions are included. Number is not subject to 'carving'. Quantify the results. 'Number' is never subject to the Linguistic Turn. Democracy is "for the People" and there's a lot of human beings in the world.

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