Great interview with @DavidDeutschOxf citing the GREAT Karl Popper
Democracy is not about ELECTIONS
It is about the ability to remove rulers and policies without violence.
The more a system is conducive to that, the more it is democratic.
https://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=225 …https://twitter.com/joebosphilos/status/1202271292096946178 …
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The ability to remove rulers and policies is far more important than choosing the right one. Because we can not know in advance what the impact of a ruler or policy will behttps://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=255 …
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The advantage of "first past the post" elections - (as done in UK), versus proportional representation - (as done in many other EU countries) is that you leave leadership maximally vulnerable to changes in public opinionhttps://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=350 …
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In a proportional representation system - the population might start to lean further left - and a moderate right wing government would then have to build a coalition with more extreme right swing, and thus swing government and policy in opposite direction. Or vice versa.
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Hot take - Britain was the only place Socialism was ACTUALLY tried and didn't lead to permanent damage Because of culture of criticism / trying things / and ability to remove bad policies and leadershttps://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=1157 …
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Ok so this part of the interview - where
@DavidDeutschOxf addresses each of the major arguments in favor of Remain has completely convinced me that VOTE LEAVE was the 100% the right thing to do Possibly one of best politics interviews I've ever seenhttps://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=1338 …2 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
"A Rationalist is a person who would rather Not get his/her way because they have failed to persuade other people.. than to get their way by force" - Karl Popper Great definitionhttps://youtu.be/xdtssXITXuE?t=1308 …
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Conor White-Sullivan @ConawReplying to @jdunck @DavidDeutschOxfYeah he states the axioms pretty plainly You can't know what is going to happen in the future - so you want politics to be a system of error correction. In UK, they tried socialism after WWII, kept the good parts and ditched bad parts - such experimentation never happens in EU2 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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Conor White-Sullivan @ConawReplying to @Conaw @fortelabsGreat point in this interview is when@DavidDeutschOxf says "A system that is good at error correction will MAKE MORE ERRORS" - and paradoxically this is a very good thing Like they say in startups - FAIL FAST. Prophecy is the opposite of knowledge. https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1212893693021044736?s=20 …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Conor White-Sullivan Retweeted David Deutsch
The best argument I've ever heard for Monarchy (Private Ownership over a soverign territory) was from the rascal Hans Hermann Hoppe - see
@HoppeQuotes Kings have incentive to think about long term The mob regularly votes against their kids Counter arg:https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/1202290589242478593?s=19 …Conor White-Sullivan added,
David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxfReplying to @ganesh__s @joebosphilosTo carry through a beneficial long-term project which will do harm in the short term, a party has to persuade the electorate that this is worth it. And that is exactly how matters should stand: if they can't persuade a plurality to try it, it shouldn't be tried until they can.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread
Monarchy doesn't solve the succession problem very well. Catholic Church and other long-lived orgs plausibly a better model for stability and long-term thinking.
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