Θετική πολιτική κουλτούρα: «νοοτροπία βελτίωσης» αντί της νοοτροπίας cheems

Η νοοτροπία cheems είναι η αντανακλαστική πεποίθηση ότι τα εμπόδια στα αποτελέσματα πολιτικής είναι φυσικοί νόμοι που δεν πρέπει να χάνουμε το χρόνο μας εξετάζοντας πώς να ξεπεράσουμε

 
Στη θέση της νοοτροπίας cheems, πρέπει να αναπτύξουμε αυτό που ο Δρ Anton Howes αποκαλεί «η νοοτροπία βελτίωσης». Αντί να επιστρέψουμε αυτόματα στο να σκεφτόμαστε «γιατί δεν μπορεί να γίνει αυτή η ιδέα», πρέπει να καλλιεργήσουμε μια θετική πολιτική κουλτούρα του «πώς μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί αυτή η ιδέα».

 
Personal Cheems Mindset

Or: 2Cheems2Furious

Last year I introduced you all to the phrase “cheems mindset”. To recap, I defined cheems mindset as:

“the reflexive belief that barriers to policy outcomes are natural laws that we should not waste our time considering how to overcome.”

In inventing this concept, I seem to have hit on something. Since publication, the term has been used in think tank blogs, Youtube videos and articles, including one criticising New Zealand’s border policy. It even has its own entry in Urban Dictionary.

Yet since unleashing it into the world, I’ve had the creeping feeling that I got my initial definition of cheems mindset wrong. There is, in fact, a kaleidoscope of different versions of cheems mindset.

While cheems mindset in Government and policy is one of its most egregious forms, encouraging sclerosis and acting as a drag on our ability to make things better, it’s by no means the only form of cheems mindset. The one I’d like to explore today is personal cheems mindset.

Given it’s near impossible for most individuals to move the dial on Government and policy making, personal cheems mindset is much more consequential for the average person than policy cheems mindset.

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Aside from the 100,000 deaths and the political failures that led us to them, one of the most infuriating parts of the coronavirus crisis has been the reaction of “I am very intelligent” political commentator types to new ideas. Time after time when a new suggestion to improve our Covid response is made, these types revert to scrambling for reasons why it just can’t be done.

24 hour vaccinations? “No-one would be interested in an appointment at 2am”

Tightened border restrictions? “Not enough hotels to implement it; would be very hard on travellers”

Review the vaccine approval process to see what could have been sped up? “you fool, you rube, a vaccine has never been approved so quickly before!”

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