"I’d rather said masters be competent, sane, and efficient" The whole point of being a slave is you don't get to assert these preferences.
1/2 It *can* Anything *can* happen. It’s just unlikely. Your political existential myth (not denigrating by calling a myth, we all believe some kind of myth) requires you to believe that it always *does* in order to legitimize your views.
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2/2 It’s like people deplatforming rightists to “prevent genocide.” JBP surely won’t lead to genocide...but the leftist *has* to believe in that myth in order to justify their behavior or actions, because without that framework their actions are pointless and absurd.
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Everyone has a myth they believe. Everyone. The key is to find a myth that is the least distance away from material reality. This minimizes cognitive dissonance and allows you to cooly and analytically analyze reality removed from emotional motivators
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You have to analyze your models. And figure out if they really predict anything at all. Then you can test them and maybe make better ones.
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Replace models with governments and predict with govern and I maybe would’ve sent this tweet. I’m constantly optimizing my worldview. I’ve even had a socialist phase (strasserist however). I’m all about diversity of ideas, and filtering them out via conception and debate
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I don't really think it does. I'm not Hobbes. But there are always powerful, power hungry people, who try. Democracies have been able to survive because despotic systems don't work well.
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>Democracies have been able to survive because despotism doesn’t work well The period of time Rome was a republic < the period of time Rome was a defector dictatorship Just because democracies tend to be more stable *now* does not mean that is universally true.
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It thrived as a republic. But when it went empire, it wasn't long before it started to have some trouble.
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