democratic process may ironically lead to more authoritarian high modernism than literal authoritarianism think about how homogeneous gadgets have become. everyone just googles “Best XYZ” and buys it on amazon
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regular authoritarianism on the other hand has hooman volatility that prevents it from becoming “totalizing” the same way a recursive function crashes a computer. hoomans have inbuilt halting mechanisms
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there’s also an argument that rising out on top of the authoritarian power struggle means that the person in charge is someone who KNOWS how to play the game.
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new authoritarian figures also not only play the game of thrones well, but have done so in a world with globalized knowledge (vs previous cults of personality where the leader may have been charismatic but dumb at everything else)
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this is the steve jobs as anti-authoritarian authoritarian argument. and while it does create wholes that are greater than sums, it’s the same brittleness as philosopher kings
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so if democratic complaining doesn’t work, then what about the opposite? democratic hive mind of the people! emergent collective knowledge! well.. that’s currently valuing doge at 0.6
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