Moral paradigms
How a moral order is built, defended and replaced, and why the present one treats subtraction as progress. The theory behind every other section.
Read the books →Make the Case
The case against the present paradigm, entry by entry.
A paradigm holds as long as its failures stay invisible. This is a public, sourced record of them: what it promised, what it delivered, and what the data actually say.
How every entry is built
- The claim, in one plain sentence.
- The primary data: official records, court filings, published studies. Links to each source.
- What it shows, and what it does not. The limits are stated as clearly as the finding.
- The strongest objection, answered or conceded.
- Who wrote it and how it was checked: authorship, review status and the date the numbers were last checked.
Every entry passes an independent critical review before it goes live and carries its review status at the top. Corrections are welcome and are logged on the entry.
Sections
Cultural craziness
Movements, campaigns and stories with huge cultural reach that failed, faded or were proven false, and then were forgotten. Once gone, they make the paradigm look better than its record. (Failed and Forgotten.)
Buried data
Cases where data in filings, studies or reports was left out, re-tested until it said the right thing, or quietly revised.
Hidden costs
The everyday costs the current order puts on ordinary people that never appear in its own accounting.
Crime and race data
How official crime statistics are recorded, and where the recording itself changes the numbers people quote.
Read: Hispanic bookings recorded as White in San Francisco →