I don't believe intelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. I also don't believe unintelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. This is why I don't believe democracy is a solution to the problems of elitism.
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It seems like you don't have a problem with elitism *per se*, but that the wrong elites are coordinating the system.
Any elite that wants to "coordinate a system" is the wrong elite. Any elite given the power to "coordinate a system" quickly becomes the wrong elite. I'm sure there are faustian triumphs of reason hidden on the road to otherwise certain hell, but it's still bad to gamble.
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I think my position is broadly just that if nobody good ever did anything evil we'd only have evil people in evil places doing evil things, which maximizes evil. If good people do evil things, we sometimes get good people doing lesser evil in evil places, which reduces evil.
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Oh, I don't think in that kind of math.
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I mean, "coordinating a system" and meta-coordinating a system (as you are proposing) is... really the same thing. Unilaterally dismissing democracy (or any other making decisions for others) is an elitist act.
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It's more self-interested than elitist. To an extent I don't believe in self-mediating my advocacy of my own interests anymore, because nobody else does so, which means to reach a proper balance of interests requires me to phrase my own interests in similarly extreme fashion.
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