NSmolenskiFan on Nostr: https://unherd.com/2024/01/why-american-cities-are-squalid/ Greay piece. This is the ...
https://unherd.com/2024/01/why-american-cities-are-squalid/
Greay piece. This is the same faulty design logic I found operating in the public school system:
“A removal of resources for the majority, because of concerns over ‘misuse’ by less than 1% of residents.”
As a result, the supposedly “bad kids” end up getting most of the attention and resources. Even when policies, curricula, classrooms, and equipment are designed to “prevent” them from “doing bad things”, the meta-message is that they are still being designed *for* them (well, not for them as humans, but for them as “bad people”)—and not for anyone else.
This is the paradox of policing culture: you end up fixating on the very thing you’re trying to “eliminate.” And then it multiplies because it’s being perversely incentivized. People like attention, even when it’s negative.
In short, negative attention rewards and reinforces bad behavior. Changing this dynamic requires a fundamental shift in mindset.
Greay piece. This is the same faulty design logic I found operating in the public school system:
“A removal of resources for the majority, because of concerns over ‘misuse’ by less than 1% of residents.”
As a result, the supposedly “bad kids” end up getting most of the attention and resources. Even when policies, curricula, classrooms, and equipment are designed to “prevent” them from “doing bad things”, the meta-message is that they are still being designed *for* them (well, not for them as humans, but for them as “bad people”)—and not for anyone else.
This is the paradox of policing culture: you end up fixating on the very thing you’re trying to “eliminate.” And then it multiplies because it’s being perversely incentivized. People like attention, even when it’s negative.
In short, negative attention rewards and reinforces bad behavior. Changing this dynamic requires a fundamental shift in mindset.