Recently, I’ve been looking at processes of consensus decision-making, and I’ve grown more and more skeptical of the idea of unanimity. It seems to me that, when everyone is in perfect agreement, there isn’t actually that much thought going on, and that the decisions reached are actually some of the lazier, less-interesting approaches.
Read MoreBefore I really get going on the speculation, though, I want to talk about the end-of-history fallacy. There is a tendency to assume that the present state of affairs is somehow the final form of the world, that history is the story of how this current moment emerged. But the monstrosity of our current moment is making this harder and harder to swallow: the covers have been ripped off and we can see the poorly-made Rube Goldberg machine of history for what it is.
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