this is the point that gets me. so close to understandinghttps://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/824123823566061570 …
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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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progressive democracy may just be fundamentally suicidal
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I see a split between two ways of interpreting the world, content-based and process-based
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content-based is "x opinion is unacceptable" and process-based is "treat all opinions the same"
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it sounds facile but that way, but I really think that leads to factions arguing around each other
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this sounds like universalism vs relativism to me, and tbh I disagree with both
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in a stage 5 kind of way, or... ?
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I don't think there's an objective basis, but I also don't think that means they're all equally valid or true
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you can define metrics and compare cultures against each other, and some are overall better than others
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wouldn't that be a process-based approach? "we choose these metrics and judge all accordingly"
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