I think D&G do a great analysis of errors of abstraction when they talk of statements both too abstract and not abstract enough.
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Ahh. Well I don't see how abstraction errors are limited to democracy, plenty of mismanagement by monarchies.
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Failed megaprojects are great examples of the kind of abstraction error a monarchy likes to commit.
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My point was more so that democracy itself is an error of abstraction and is "functions" closer to a disastrous monarchy.
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Only when your state of order is a monarchy. The thing about the entropic view is that choice of ordered state is arbitrary.
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No because increasing order relies on a selection mechanism. Democracy selects for effective propaganda above all.
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Realistically it also selects for economical success. The guys in the parliament are not necessarily those who run things.
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Which leads to the idea behind social democracy: weigh government against market in the hope that something sane results.
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That is exactly what makes social democracy the worst and most disastrous of governments.
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I disagree. Social democracies have a pretty good track record. They are, however, not legible ("clean"), rather quite messy.
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It is fine to disagree, as I do with you here. This is why patchwork and exit rights are essential for political sanity.
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