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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My political/economic philosophy priors: 1. No rule about political/economic systems is completely accurate or universal 2. In general, emergent phenomenon from low-level agents is better than top-down rules 3. Culture has huge impact, and often determines the success of a system
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
re: 1; political philosophies have a flaw somewhere. e.g., I'm libertarianish, but libertarianism philosophy is imperfect; philosophies are built on assumptions around things like 'rights' or 'freedom' or 'safety', which are arbitrary and socially flexible.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
re: 2; emergent phenomenon leads to better stability and a more complex and vibrant being; see what systems arise naturally out of watching people pursue what they need, and will often be way more nuanced and detailed in the right ways than planned laws can be.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
re: 3; debating if communism/anarchy/capitalism is best leaves out the incredible importance of the culture of the people in this system. The system and the culture work in tandem as one being; you can't separate them. A system might thrive with one culture but fail with another.
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Jilcaesel
@Jilcaesel
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@Aella_Girl
I agree. This is a point I frequently make to people who want to overthrow capitalism: you would need either several generations with massive popular support or to start anew on the moon with only willing people.
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Jeff Swann
@AgoristView
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@Aella_Girl
The aim of basic libertarian principles (of which political libertarians are often ignorant) is to allow ppl freedom to interact in the most efficient, creative, & culturally significant ways they can devise while minimizing costs imposed on those who wish to live another way
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Cow Tongue
@cowtung
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@Aella_Girl
Culture is memes. Opposing memes form equilibriums. Humans who don't see the world as memes shaped by game theoretic and evolutionary forces are doomed to model the world through some insufficient subset of the very memes they're modeling. Most people are just wrong all the time.
Sam
@sbow82
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@Aella_Girl
Good point. An example might be far east cultures being more collectivist & therefore political systems like communism might tend to work better (or just be less calamitous)