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Kyle Russell
@kylebrussell
Utopian rule can only come from a government that elects its people vs the other way around (This typically happens violently)
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Balaji
@balajis
If the conflict isn't ideological, if people are voting for tribes rather than ideas, then the temptation is for one side to try to win totally, via Blue Censorship or Red Dictatorship. Which are the same, as censorship implies dictatorship & vice versa. Is there a better way?
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Kyle Russell
@kylebrussell
Balaji’s Network State allows for more direct individual/nation alignment with smaller, opt-in political bodies But the cost of the option is that you have to be willing to be a rootless cosmopolitan As soon as you lock into a place normal political dynamics form
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parker
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The thing about folks like this is that they seem to mostly object to messy liberal democracy, so amongst practical political structures they tend to prefer very top-down ones, despite the rhetoric. This is why we should not be shocked when ostensible Libertarians go hard right.
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parker
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The real rub is that this kind of solution is most likely in a centrally-planned economy, and so the sovereign individuals who want to experience it will have to emigrate from their Libertarian Network States, which will see incrementalism rule the day. thenetworkstate.com
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