Angus Fletcher
speaker
2,582 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Angus Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's very abstract.
It's not at all clear how you take a first step towards that.
Whereas a specific objective is something you could explain to a child and they could write a storybook about.
And we've lost our specificity when we think about the future.
So if you take any basic creative writing class, the first thing they'll tell you is you should write your own story because you're more specific about it, because specificity is what makes a story work.
If you've ever read a story that you like, what you like about it is the details.
You're like, wow, that's weird, that's interesting, that's specific.
Specifics are what makes creativity work.
But so much of our society is now being planned by people who think in generalities.
And then I think it's because so much of our society has become dominated by ideology.
So, you know, we have these political lefts and right.
This is how we should do things.
This is how we should do things.
It's all very abstract, based in old rules.
And people immediately see that and have no idea how to get there.
Whereas if you say to somebody, well, you know, we need to build a healthcare system.
Okay, that's a specific objective.
Okay, well, what does that mean?
Well, we know what it means is we need to have two nurses for every 25 people.
Oh, okay.
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