I’ve always suspected that dystopias are directly caused by utopians but now I have a working theory of how. It is a self-antifulfilling prophecy.
If the fraction of utopians in a population crosses a threshold, a good-enough equilibrium will destabilize into a dystopia.
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Absolute best work on this problem is James Scott's "Seeing Like a State" yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030007 the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge
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have you seen his newer one - did you suggest that to me? amazon.com/Against-Grain- debunks the idea that states are natural and how hard it was at first to get people to live in them.
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Yup. Read about a third then abandoned. Seemed legit but didn’t feel like going through the whole argument


