Dictators aren’t accountable to their consumers/citizens. I think it’s perfectly possible have a strong executive and excuse messy interest group politics while still maintaining the social contract.
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
Governance is a service and like all services it should be subject to optimization via market competition. But we have fundamentally different conceptions of politics/reality and I highly doubt either of us will experience a conversion from a Twitter interaction.
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
It'll becomeva game of pure power and the market will be destroyed. The CEO's will become warlords. The market is pretty artifical. Something like that would probably work better with worker cooperatives.
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Replying to @MoreSocialism
Kind of like how socialist regimes devolve into despotism


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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
If warlordism wins out, then warlordism is optimal. But seeing how our techno-productive social base doesn’t graft well to despotism I doubt reality will shift into this scenario, as reality tends to select for the most stable scenario that advances techno-productive elements
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Replying to @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
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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