Title: I Don't Do Policy
-Date: 2021-05-25 05:00
+Date: 2021-09-28 05:00
Category: commentary
Tags: politics
-Status: draft
Something about my writing that tends to confuse people, that I need to clarify briefly: people keep expecting me to come out with some sort of policy prescription, whereas I see myself as trying to _describe_ what's actually going on in the world without being delusional about how much control I have over it. I think my account of what's actually going on is potentially a _relevant input_ into someone's computation of deciding what _they_ should do, but almost everything I say is at least one meta level up from any actual decisions. (And the only decisions I can _control_ are my own.)