this is the point that gets me. so close to understandinghttps://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/824123823566061570 …
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most progs aren't sufficiently self-critical/detached enough to even have this conversation but: separate the enforcement...
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...mechanism and debate the merits of the culture itself to determine whether it is worth forcing on a population
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(lately I consider the various fascisms and communisms abominations of modernity. progressive democracy not far behind)
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Does modernity have any governance you wouldn't find abominable, or is it modernity that is the problem?
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I don't think we have a "good enough" system yet but don't think modernity is itself the problem
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(part of the reason I talk about it so much is I'm trying to hash out a workable solution)
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some sort of transhumanist-flavored system that has definable goals and understands tradeoffs would be a start
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communism/fascism are both utopian totalitarianisms, any horror is justifiable for (unobtainable) perfection
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