The principle problem with governments is that they don't die often enough to be well-selected. ...
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... The traditional anarchist error is to concentrate upon killing governments. Far better is to concentrate upon proliferating them. ...
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... Lever Darwinism to the upper-reaches of political economy. If you can trigger a population explosion, you get the culling for free. ...
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... The general point (Darwin's big idea), is that no organism gets to vote on what counts as 'fit'. From that, everything follows.
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Replying to @LiamJcksnSmith
Sexual selection is an interesting complication, for sure.
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It's important, but you're tilting into hyperbole. a) There are many more dimensions to survival than attractiveness ...
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... b) Sexual selection isn't transcendent judgment ('voting') because it's selected for itself. ...
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... It's an adaptive trait, and poor mate choice criteria are edited just as ruthlessly as any other trait.
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I'm deeply skeptical about the idea that sexual selection can be isolated sufficiently to make that sort of claim.
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