He has some great insights, but I'm not completely on the anti-modernity train. Some things are good, some things are bad
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Agreed. My point is that, just like now, there's no guarantee the emperor isn't as horrid as present day globalists. I think it's esentially impossible engineer out corruption of any system involving humans, but making all roles leadership unpleasant in some way would be a start
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Making leadership hereditary is one of the more effective ways to keep sociopaths out of the top spot. As soon as you have a competitive selection process, you'll end up selecting for sociopaths.
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But once you remove all meritocracy there's always the risk of a decadent wastrel inheriting power. Or worse (like Caligula)
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Perfect is the enemy of good. Trouble with explaining this is that most of the failsafes are built into the religious aspects of the state and fedoras don't care about that.
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There's an absolute metric shit ton of accumulated social technology that got unceremoniously jettisoned, because various waves of "enlightenment" movements felt they were constraining the unfettered power of the state needed to implement their grand visions.
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Now here we are, with every single one of those grand projects having failed. So I feel it's time to restore those traditions, now we know what happens in their absence.
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