fantasy settings could really do a lot more in the way of exploring the sheer, inutterable terror of living under even a well-intentioned, kind-hearted sorceror-king https://twitter.com/beautyisabsurd/status/1160037882951634944 …
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"what? i was getting reports that there was a lot of unhappiness, so i summoned a legion of void demons to eat all the unhappiness. you need something else *already*? i really wanted to get back to my research"
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that sounds like it assumes far more internal coherence to bureaucracies than in fact can be.
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it's a hypothetical technocrat who actually has at least one lever he can move
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The objective refuses to conform to the system that was determined to be optimal for the objective
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great explanation for why anti-liberalism and counterculture/subaltern groups are so intertwined as well — technocrats measure those quantities square at the “average” citizen, for whatever average means in a given society
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How strange, this is basically the elevator pitch for my Aristocats sequel
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no even this. Even the "goodfaith" technocrat is not maximizing your satisfaction most of the times, he is minimizing your biggest risks (or what he perceives them to be).
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Seriously! I'm for making people feel accepted but I don't understand this thing where we're suggesting *people who are clinically defined as having dysfunctional social skills* be put in charge of social rules.
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