[Whispers of Society] Do you know about Plurality?

I am a grandpa who supports the younger generation and the future generation!

Yesterday, I introduced the binary opposition between the separate surname system and the same surname system for married couples.

A law passed with a 51%:49% splitnurtures dissatisfaction in the 49%, and if that is repeated, itcreates division.Instead of deciding black and white on binary oppositions by majority vote, if we couldlead to legal measures in a pluralistic way that satisfies both sides, perhaps it would be possible to shift from conflict to creation?

During theSunflower Student Movementin 2014, the public'strust in the Taiwan government was 9%. After Audrey Tang became Taiwan's Digital Minister in 2016, she introduced and utilized digital technology in politics, andby 2020, trust had risen to 70%.

How can the public's sense of conviction in politics be raised so much?

Frankly speaking, Taiwanese democracy has advanced further than Japan's.
Taiwan is already ahead of themethodology of "broad listening in politics"that Mr. Anno advocated in Japan and that many opposition parties are now starting to talk about,which is already ahead of the methodology.

Please take a look at the video below. If you watch it for 2-3 minutes, you will surely become a fan of Audrey.

The buzzword "diversity" is already old;visualizing pluralistic perspectivesmight be very effective forchanging Japan, a country of slander, and returning to a national character that excels in mutual aid.

For example, simply telling platformers to take responsibility and delete AI-based scam ads won't solve the problem.Platformers whose advertising revenue would decrease will not work on it seriously (measures that would reduce ad revenue), and they will just retort that it is your own responsibility for being deceived, and that's the end of it.

In Taiwan, they deal with such conflicting themes by taking 400 excellent engineers with ideas for eradicating AI scam ads, dividing them into 20 groups of 20, consolidating the ideas for eradicating scam ads, and then incorporating them into legal measures. It is said that AI scam ads have already decreased drastically in Taiwan. You want to learn about that kind of political participation, don't you?

How do we coordinate diverse solutions and connect them to legal measures?
Extracting 400 people, dividing them into small groups of 20, summarizing them into 20 methodologies, and then having 20 representatives from those 20 groups gather to summarize them into legislative ideas in a pluralistic wayseems like a good way to do it.

Audrey Tang seems to be designing the system by learning fromJapanese neighborhood associations, and even further, thesmall groups (units)of about 20 households that subdivide those neighborhood associations. By imitating the style of gathering opinions for each group, bringing them to the neighborhood association, and leading to solutions, it looks as if she hasrealized a pluralistic method of efficiently summarizing the opinions of people with ideas (problem-solving solutions) by utilizing digital technology in the political arena.

Please keep the newbuzzword "plurality"in mind.

The video pasted above is about an hour long, so if you have the time to watch it from the beginning, please watch the whole thing. You will be moved by the foresight ofTaiwanese democracy that appointed Audrey Tang as minister.

Japan is 10 years behind Taiwan, and we have finally reached the point where Mr. Anno is challenging the House of Councillors election. However, the current situation is acountry of slander based on simple dualism for everything, whether it's active fiscal policy or austerity, tax increases or tax cuts, separate surnames or same surnames for married couples, whether you like or dislike the brazen Governor Saito,let's not bicker like that and try to visualize and think about things in a pluralistic way!

Even if it is impossible to discuss the thoughts of everyone in a municipality like a city in the political arena, by using digital technology to extract 400 representatives from among them, dividing them into 20 groups of 20, having the 20 groups visualize the differences in opinions, overcoming those differences to derive group-adjusted proposals, and bringing those proposals together. A pluralistic world that realizes "mutual support" like adigital neighborhood associationthat utilizes such digital technology,I think is "good".

Surely, even regarding how to release stockpiled rice, instead ofthe dualism of competitive bidding or discretionary contractsorwhether the agricultural cooperative is good or evil,whether you like or dislike Minister Koizumiand othersimple dualisms that incite division, I think Minister Audrey Tang would have surely proposed a pluralistic solution.

The opinions of the 'Teinen no Ossan Channel' (Retired Old Man's Channel) were reflected in Team Mirai's manifesto.

Please take a look at the link above to see how Grandpa's opinions were reflected in the manifesto.
I think that not only young people, but many others are starting to feel that politics is becoming more accessible.

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