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b'In many PCs, the first software to run after hitting the power button is called BIOS (Basic Input-Output System). BIOS loads the computer\\u2019s operating system and the individual settings that make your personal computer so...personal. A malfunction at this most basic level leads to a cascade of other problems, including error messages, poor performance, or refusing to boot at all.\\nIt\\u2019s important to get the foundational things right, and not just in our computers. For too long, says Blake Pagenkopf, author of The Structure of Political Positions, our political discourse has been hobbled by a fundamental error\\u2014an error not just in our language but in the structures beneath that language. In particular, we tend to locate ourselves and others as points on a single line, a Left-Right spectrum. But this one-dimensional paradigm is too limiting. There are too many data points that fall outside the conventional Left-Right political modes, says Pagenkopf. We need to reboot our politics with a fuller, richer way to frame our political disagreements. We need to upgrade our political BIOS.\\nIn today\\u2019s episode of the Strong Towns podcast, Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn talks with Pagenkopf about why we must transition from a one-dimensional view of political positions to a two-dimensional view\\u2014with a Values Axis (the familiar Left-Right/Liberal-Conservative line) but also a Power Axis, from \\u201ccentralized\\u201d at the top to \\u201ccitizen-based\\u201d below.\\nMarohn and Pagenkopf talk about how Pagenkopf\\u2019s background in architecture helped him think differently about political positions, and why the current approach obscures opportunities to work together...and delegitimizes some people altogether. They talk about why the Strong Towns movement is one part of a larger \\u201cmeta-movement\\u201d that doesn\\u2019t fit traditional liberal-conservative modes. And they discuss how a two-dimensional view reveals surprising bright spots in our politics, right when we need them most.\\nAdditional Show Notes:\\nThe Structure of Political Positions, by Blake Pagenkopf\\nThe Great Conflation, by Blake Pagenkopf\\nBlake Pagenkopf (Blog)\\nBlake Pagenkopf on James Howard Kunstler\\u2019s Kunstlercast\\nFurther reading from Strong Towns on politics:\\n\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s All Local Now,\\u201d by Charles Marohn\\n\\u201cWe Don\\u2019t Live in a World of Cartoon Villains,\\u201d by Daniel Herriges\\n\\u201cWhat Are We Waiting For?\\u201d (Podcast)\\n\\u201cDignity In an Alienated America,\\u201d by Charles Marohn\\n\\u201cThe Dignity of Local Community: A Conversation with Chris Arnade\\u201d (Podcast)'