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A little while back there was a clamouring for less constitutional debates and more playing of the game...
... and now, the very same people who lamented about how discussion about rules and laws and polls and whatnot was dominating the forum, have now become the most avid proponents of rewriting all of the above! I'm sure I don't need to name names.
But I'm not criticizing them, just pointing out that this was bound to happen. The last hullaballoo about Constitutional issues was the Presidential election (that resulted in the Court being "speedily" created with almost 100% support). But then came the reactionaries who decried the "waste of time" and energy spent on revising our COL. Just play the game they said.
And we did. It was fun. But we never resolved those issues. Is it any wonder that it comes back to bite us in the rear?
Predicted it was that these things are cyclical. Flood, ebb and flow. Soon enough, this too will die down. The elections are coming, and the focus will shift again. The one thing that might cause a more catastrophic effect is the return to school for many students.
We can see that in a few weeks, there will be a silent period as many of our citizens readjust to their real life commitments. Do not let the game die there. There will be a return, if we are not too hasty to declare a game "dead".
Let us try to be patient in the current proceedings as well. These things take time. Consider the Court Amendment and the current Impeachment Amendment. Yes, they have taken weeks (months) to develop, but look at how much support they have - because the issues have been hashed out beforehand, allowing enough time for all interested to have their say, and the resulting consensus is less likely to be controversial than a hastily enacted proposal that only narrowly succeeded.
Admittedly, the original COL was rushed into place because we had to get on with the game instead of endless deliberation, but it was rushed. We do have a job to do to clean it up, making sure to eliminate internal contradictions, tighten up the allowable interpretation of vague terms and sentences, and generally make it more readable.
But it takes time and the tyranny of the urgent, the haste to do something because "something must be done", is a poor lead to follow. Think things through. It takes less time to do it right than to rush it now and fix it later.
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btw, let's not give Uber (or Skywalker) all the credit either... others (namely GePap et al) have been debating the same for quite some time and laying the groundwork for these proposals long before "Revolution" was announced - and doing it without the sound and fury of teenage angst and an MTV style attention span.
... and now, the very same people who lamented about how discussion about rules and laws and polls and whatnot was dominating the forum, have now become the most avid proponents of rewriting all of the above! I'm sure I don't need to name names.
But I'm not criticizing them, just pointing out that this was bound to happen. The last hullaballoo about Constitutional issues was the Presidential election (that resulted in the Court being "speedily" created with almost 100% support). But then came the reactionaries who decried the "waste of time" and energy spent on revising our COL. Just play the game they said.
And we did. It was fun. But we never resolved those issues. Is it any wonder that it comes back to bite us in the rear?
Predicted it was that these things are cyclical. Flood, ebb and flow. Soon enough, this too will die down. The elections are coming, and the focus will shift again. The one thing that might cause a more catastrophic effect is the return to school for many students.
We can see that in a few weeks, there will be a silent period as many of our citizens readjust to their real life commitments. Do not let the game die there. There will be a return, if we are not too hasty to declare a game "dead".
Let us try to be patient in the current proceedings as well. These things take time. Consider the Court Amendment and the current Impeachment Amendment. Yes, they have taken weeks (months) to develop, but look at how much support they have - because the issues have been hashed out beforehand, allowing enough time for all interested to have their say, and the resulting consensus is less likely to be controversial than a hastily enacted proposal that only narrowly succeeded.
Admittedly, the original COL was rushed into place because we had to get on with the game instead of endless deliberation, but it was rushed. We do have a job to do to clean it up, making sure to eliminate internal contradictions, tighten up the allowable interpretation of vague terms and sentences, and generally make it more readable.
But it takes time and the tyranny of the urgent, the haste to do something because "something must be done", is a poor lead to follow. Think things through. It takes less time to do it right than to rush it now and fix it later.
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btw, let's not give Uber (or Skywalker) all the credit either... others (namely GePap et al) have been debating the same for quite some time and laying the groundwork for these proposals long before "Revolution" was announced - and doing it without the sound and fury of teenage angst and an MTV style attention span.
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