The dynamics you discuss here follow pretty intuitively from the basic conflict/mistake paradigm.
I think it’s very easy to believe that the natural extension of the conflicts/mistakes paradigm is that policy fights are composed of a linear combination of the two. Schelling’s “rudimentary/obvious” idea, for example, that conflict is and cooperation is often structurally inseparable, is a more subtle and powerful reorientation than it first seems.
But this is a hard point to discuss (because it’s in the structure of an “unknown known”), and I didn’t interview many people before writing my thing.
If you’ve never felt tempted before to see the policy disagreements this way, then I could just be miscalibrated here on the obviousness or lack thereof of these ideas.
I think it’s very easy to believe that the natural extension of the conflicts/mistakes paradigm is that policy fights are composed of a linear combination of the two. Schelling’s “rudimentary/obvious” idea, for example, that conflict is and cooperation is often structurally inseparable, is a more subtle and powerful reorientation than it first seems.
But this is a hard point to discuss (because it’s in the structure of an “unknown known”), and I didn’t interview many people before writing my thing.
If you’ve never felt tempted before to see the policy disagreements this way, then I could just be miscalibrated here on the obviousness or lack thereof of these ideas.