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Paradox: Closet humanist, truthful analyst, and measured founder. There has never been an immortal human society. Figuring out why.

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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      if they did, though, the public would likely confound efforts, stirred up be the media, which thrives on stirring people up with what a Big Deal everything is

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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      the media was long before facebook optimizing for engagement even if they didn't have the same sense of it, and in fairness a project like this actually would be a Big Deal

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      but so many of governance types are status quo-biased status-obsessed incompetents _because_ their inverse see systemic failure and insane media kabuki and decide against

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      most smart competent results-oriented future-focused people rightly don't want to be involved in that quagmire because of the problems their presence would be required to solve

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      I'm always a bit sad reading code for america testimonials (members of which do seem to be generally smart competent etc)

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    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      because they always amount to "we found this one incredibly fucked up thing and through an enormous amount of fighting bureaucrat intransigence made it measurably less so"

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    7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      anyway the only way around the circular dependency I see is:

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    8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      a) preference cascade of smart etc people who value reforming the system wholesale deciding there's enough of them to take it over entirely, who b) maintain the attitude the public can go fuck itself

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    9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Feb 11

      but I don't think this is likely to happen because the democracy meme is too strong, and what's more probable is at least partial societal collapse in the coming decades

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    10. Samo Burja‏ @SamoBurja Feb 20
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      The democracy meme coordinates many people people through centralized loudspeakers. Atomization of individuals however makes such masses less useful, today unions don't work because of bowling alone for example.

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      Samo Burja‏ @SamoBurja Feb 20
      Replying to @SamoBurja @alicemazzy

      I am also going to note that even were individuals not atomized and thus less skilled and useful at coordinated action, merely by capturing the central information organs of society is sufficient to guide action.

      2:25 PM - 20 Feb 2018
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