Hitler couldn't get an adjutant out of bed to help resolve a crisis, because that was outside the rules. Yet he could get soldiers to murder millions of innocents when he was doing it under color of law. Germans would only obey "the law", but "the law" could be anything. [1/4]
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The idea of a society that can achieve more because individual behavior is controlled by centrally maintained software is at the root of civilization. Fascism took this to its extreme, demonstrating both the power of this concept as well as how horribly it fails.
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I find it interesting that all such systems aimed at worldwide inclusion, even trivial ones like pacifism, will always find opposition. Is it just a coincidence that opposition was always stronger, or something else makes them fail?
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We live in a universe which seems to *require* polarity at virtually every level of emergence. Hence, we should not be surprised that a unipolar configuration cannot endure long.
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I think what allude to might be what physicists mean by symmetry. Usually, if something is not symmetric it will disperse. If something sticks around it means that everything that pulls it into one direction is balanced by some counteracting principle.
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