Between 2SD (2 Standard Deviations) and Outliers [Part 2]

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Prologue

① What happens when "unchallenged results" occur in democracy

If we arrange the composition mentioned in the question as a causal sequence, it looks like this.

1. Interest in elections remains at a low altitude

2. No issues are raised
   → More politicians who are essentially pre-determined winners

3. Policies are chosen only based on "things no one opposes"

4. As a result,
   “designs that don't require explanation” are valued

5. EBPM (Evidence-Based Policy Making) is
   operated as a technical theory devoid of value judgment

👉 What is happening here is
the transformation of politics from a "place to raise questions" into a "device that silently executes optimization."

② The fear of system design based on a "mental escape"

Originally, systems should move in the direction of

• why loneliness has increased

• why people have become unable to connect with others

• where relationships were severed

and re-questioning these issues.

However, in an "unchallenged society",

is the shortcut that gets chosen.

Moreover, it is

• something that looks like care

• something scientific

• something efficient

• something unlikely to cause controversy

👉 the most politically oriented solution is what it ends up being.

3. The moment EBPM becomes dangerous

EBPM itself is not bad.

What is dangerous is

when the premises of "what to measure" and "what to define as a result" are no longer questioned.

For example:

• Anxiety scores decreased with a pseudo-personality

• Feelings of loneliness improved based on self-reporting

• Complaints decreased

👉 The numbers show an "improvement."

But in reality,

• the circuits for interacting with people have narrowed further

• the ability to endure real-life others has been eroded

• the muscles for handling social friction have atrophied

and those long-term effects are not measured.

👉 Even so, in the short term,
one could say there is "some evidence."

④ Why this is more dangerous than a "dictatorship"

What I find scary is precisely that
it is not an overt concentration of power.

• No one is trying to dominate

• No one has malicious intent

• Everyone is choosing the "path of least resistance"

👉 That is precisely whyit is impossible to find a clear reason to oppose it.

This is
a democracy where power has become invisible.

In other words,

even if it is a fixed game

"Well, this is just how things are these days, right?"

A society that lets it pass with that.

⑤ Why 2D character remarks become a "political allegory"

That is why the author

• the minister's personal tastes

• otaku culture

• the uniqueness of Japan

is not what I am taking issue with.

What I am taking issue with is

the moment the language of the state
begins to use a substitute for human relationships
without any explanation.

That is,

• policy explanation

• Even if it loses its ethical basis,

• it is proof that a society that functions
  is already established.

I feel a sense of crisis about that.

⑥ A Drop of BLUE💧

The author says,

• elections become formalized/hollowed out,

• no questions are raised,

• EBPM conceals value judgments,

• and a future where power and systems
  are quietly designed on the premise that "people cannot tolerate living others"
  is being built

──We are standing at theentrance to that.

Moreover, it proceeds painlessly,
without anger or backlash.

This is,

the same horizon as the

ability to harmonize with the heterogeneous,
the attitude of not letting go of questions,
and the Kairotic "now"
that I have also written about.

Superficially, this is social criticism, but
at the same time,it is also a story that preaches the importanceof
the breathing method of ethics (how to stand up)☺️

<<FIN>>

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