Because decades of propaganda has conditioned us to do so. They couldn’t attack communism because the ideals of communism are actually great to 99% of the population, so instead they painted communism with the blood that people abusing communism shed and told us all it was the nature of the beast.
I do not know if it’s my genuine and jaded opinion or my programming as a USian, but I also have a distaste for Communism. The ideals are all that I want in the world but I can’t think of any situation where it wasn’t immediately transformed into authoritarian or destroyed from the outside. It feels half baked, so close to done but lacking the internal structure to transition from the representative system we’ve been using since gods ordained kings. Without that, bad actors will always have an easy access to power and like a cancer they are not so readily cut out when they metastasis.
Personally, I think the only way to organize more than 50 humans is to take humans out of the equation. Power will always encourage the darker impulses of man, so why let it be the option? I’d propose technocracy. None of this llm bullshit, no AI singularity, just statistics, data, and analysis processed by an open source, fully transparent, machine. We know population statistics to a fraction of a percent, how do you gerrymander if the computer can district a state to have functionally identical population distribution. A token representative body selected by the machine from each district for their abilities to maintain the machine and update it prevents cult of personality from putting the unqualified in power. Changes to regulation can be posed and voted on by text, no human hand to disqualify you for a hanging chad. Changes preferred are implemented in the best statistically possible way as long as they don’t go against the core principle in the computer. All of this could be run on the server I use to run jellyfin, most of it has been proposed to the government multiple times over the last 50 years, but why would a man release power to a thing that would destroy him?
Whatever power structure you try to create, men will try to control and corrupt it. The founding fathers thought splitting the power in 3 tri-force style would prevent it, but it’s only been delayed.
You put a cpu in charge? They will go after the cpu. You don’t allow access to the cpu? They will say it can’t be trusted. (Like they’re doing with scientists now) Or they put their own people in charge and lie about what the cpu is saying.
Whatever system you put in place, they will find a way around it. They will never stop, it’s their nature. And even if you devise the perfect system, maybe something that hasn’t been invented yet (like the internet) could bring it down.
I think the founding fathers also knew this, and it’s why the 2A exists. They just underestimated the power of decades of brainwashing and conditioning.
Because decades of propaganda has conditioned us to do so. They couldn’t attack communism because the ideals of communism are actually great to 99% of the population, so instead they painted communism with the blood that people abusing communism shed and told us all it was the nature of the beast.
I do not know if it’s my genuine and jaded opinion or my programming as a USian, but I also have a distaste for Communism. The ideals are all that I want in the world but I can’t think of any situation where it wasn’t immediately transformed into authoritarian or destroyed from the outside. It feels half baked, so close to done but lacking the internal structure to transition from the representative system we’ve been using since gods ordained kings. Without that, bad actors will always have an easy access to power and like a cancer they are not so readily cut out when they metastasis.
Personally, I think the only way to organize more than 50 humans is to take humans out of the equation. Power will always encourage the darker impulses of man, so why let it be the option? I’d propose technocracy. None of this llm bullshit, no AI singularity, just statistics, data, and analysis processed by an open source, fully transparent, machine. We know population statistics to a fraction of a percent, how do you gerrymander if the computer can district a state to have functionally identical population distribution. A token representative body selected by the machine from each district for their abilities to maintain the machine and update it prevents cult of personality from putting the unqualified in power. Changes to regulation can be posed and voted on by text, no human hand to disqualify you for a hanging chad. Changes preferred are implemented in the best statistically possible way as long as they don’t go against the core principle in the computer. All of this could be run on the server I use to run jellyfin, most of it has been proposed to the government multiple times over the last 50 years, but why would a man release power to a thing that would destroy him?
Whatever power structure you try to create, men will try to control and corrupt it. The founding fathers thought splitting the power in 3 tri-force style would prevent it, but it’s only been delayed.
You put a cpu in charge? They will go after the cpu. You don’t allow access to the cpu? They will say it can’t be trusted. (Like they’re doing with scientists now) Or they put their own people in charge and lie about what the cpu is saying.
Whatever system you put in place, they will find a way around it. They will never stop, it’s their nature. And even if you devise the perfect system, maybe something that hasn’t been invented yet (like the internet) could bring it down.
I think the founding fathers also knew this, and it’s why the 2A exists. They just underestimated the power of decades of brainwashing and conditioning.