Some Notable Blah, Blah, Blah

Conservatives care about themselves, liberals care about other people.

Business is bad, government is good.

Non profits are good, business is bad.

Religion is wrong, science is right.

These kinds of statements are blah, blah, blah on the face of it, becuase the nouns in the subject don't capture a piece of reality that corresponds to the real world in the way the sentences implies. In addition, these kind of judgments about good or bad necessarily need a clause that describes good or bad for whom, if they purport to describe reality.

Every statement has an implied "all" before the nouns. It is possible to create statements that purport to describe "all" of some noun, but it is almost by definition blah. blah. blah.

Here's a try at some sentences that imply "operationally all with a couple of rare exceptions" and are are trying to capture emprically provable assertions.

Humans fornicate, play, work and sometimes fight.

Work is the activity that allows the earning or resources that enable an acceptable level of safety and security.

People die.

People know they are going to die.

Knowing that they are going to die creates stress.

One of the way they deal with that stress is finding a story that "makes sense" of their time alive.

Different people use different stories.

One of the most prevelant stories is to do the right thing often described as doing their job.

People act in a way to decrease their risk,increase their ability to decrease risk in the future and act in a way that is consistent with the stories they tell themselves.

It probably doesn't make much sense to think about whether people are "good" or "bad". There is plenty of evidence throughout history that good people do bad things, and bad people can do good things. All that anyone can tell with any degree of assurance is what people will do. And the most reliable basis to predict what they will do, is based on what they have done.

The more one knows about what they have done, the less risk going forward in predicting what they will do.

So what does this mean for understanding Politics

So what does this mean for understanding Community Building

So what does this mean for Design Discourse