The ever quotable Leo McGarry reminds us, “there are two things in the world you never let people see how you make ‘em, laws and sausages.” But Dave Eggers The Circle uses the idea of a totally transparent government, where everybody sees how the sausage is made as the launching point for making individuals totally “transparent.”
Politics
On Ignorance
Someone was asking me recently what I thought about a certain new technology product, and while generally familiar with the brand and the product and able to speak intelligently on the topic I was not completely well versed. The product, a small pocket camera was just not a class of product I had been following.
Politics is more than a game
I recently wrote a paper on the gamification of politics, read the full paper at JoshuaIAltman.com
Politics is a game and like all games there are winners and there are losers in every campaign and political fight. Although the existence of the victor and the defeated has been a part of politics since since the earliest contest, the rise of games, and a larger culture surrounding games has lead to the gamification of politics. The language of politics, words like “veepstakes” and online primaries allow anybody to participate in the game and play politics.