General Question
What's your "ideal society" rubric?
Rubrics—you may know them best as the charts that teachers use to assess papers. Well, now it’s your turn to write one. And you’re writing it for all of society.
Important elements for your rubric to include:
– The dimensions of society you’re going to measure. What do you think is most important for a well-functioning society?
– Criteria that a society needs to meet in each dimension. Describe what success looks like for each dimension. The criteria need to be concrete, specific, and measurable, so that they can be effectively assessed.
– Specific plan for how you’ll measure each criterium—basically, how will you know when society “gets there” or “falls short”?
(Note: you don’t need to make the sliding scale of “most effective” to “least effective” descriptions, nor do you need to figure out how to conjure up a chart format. Just do one description, the “most effective,” for each dimension.)
Finally, if you’re up for it: how would you assess the society you live in, based on your rubric?
(Bonus questions: do you feel that your rubric was successful? Did its results match your own feelings of society, or did the results surprise you? Do you agree with them? Do you feel your rubric illuminated something, or perhaps overlooked something?)
I know this question is a bit broad in scope—that was intentional; I wanted you to be able to narrow down your rubric as you saw fit—and that it may be a bit lengthy to answer, depending on how you answer. Thank you to those who take the time. I really want to better understand the different ways people evaluate society, and I thought this might be a good structure for people to hash out their ideas. I also thought it might be fun to answer, to share a bit of the thought and logic behind some of the opinions you have about the world.
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