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@monarchist @freepatriot Reading Max Stirners the ego and its own, another point of view is that monarchy was replaced by the "monarcy of the people". What he means is that instead of an all mighty king, now, the principle of "man"/"mankind"/"the people" became the new king with all the power.

The only difference is that instead of the king distributing the power to the nobility and so on, it now goes from the president and parliament.

@monarchist @freepatriot So what was eliminated was the need to follow another persons orders. Now the other person (the king/nobility) was replaced with the order of the "nation" or "the people" which of course does not exist, and is just a fig leaf for which ever organization happens to be in power.

But the masses swallowed this illusion more easily than monarchy.

Something like that, his reasoning goes.

@monarchist @freepatriot True. I would just add "public shareholders". Private companies have shares, but they are held by the owners. No "public" people moving in, and most definitely not blackrock buying stakes to promote wokism.

I do have to admit that being the sole owner of my business has significant benefits.

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot

I'm not so sure I agree with the definition. For a market, there has to be buyers and sellers, there has to be free, informed consent, there needs to be competition, and freedom for all the players to act on the free market.

Now, taking all those criterias and applying them to western politics, I don't quite see enough of a similarity to call it a "market".

Politics has sky high barriers to entry, the choice is limited, there's no accountability, and there

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot is no free informed consent in the transaction.

@monarchist @freepatriot They talk about him, and credit him. Did you know that his father was a producer of swedish country music?

Then one day he came into the studio and his son plays something very weird and new, and the father just said... "wow, we have to make a record"!

So his father his fathers instant insight was a key to their success.

@monarchist @freepatriot Could culture be defined as "overlapping goals"?

As a thought experiment, imagine a couple of families living in close proximity in a tough area. One overlapping goal is that they want to survive. Another one is that they want the others to survive, in order to be able to get help when building a house or harvesting. A third might be to build up a reserve of grain together as an insurance against a bad harvest.

@monarchist @freepatriot True. That issues and government is "complex" is just an illusion created to keep the political class in power.

In reality, you could probably remove 99% of the government tomorrow, and people would do exactly what they did today. They would still go to their (private) jobs and do what they enjoy.

This is the dirty secret that politicians want to hide. Imagine if it got out... then people might start to insist on no government or a small government!

@monarchist @freepatriot Now fast forward a generation... could it be argued that on the foundations of these overlapping goals, a culture has formed?

Culture is then when these goals have become innate. Instead of arguing about them every year, they have become a habit, which formed over the years out of the overlapping goal of survival?

From overlapping goals, grows, over time, culture.

@monarchist @freepatriot Actually, note that we do not even need to "assume" that reality is real.

All we have to do is to act, and judge if our actions moved us closer to our goals.

If what we act _in_ is real, a simulation, etc. doesn't even need to be answered in order to profit from deliberate action.

Only a focus on what works is necessary.

What do you think about that line of reasoning?

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot Are there any historical precedents on how the aristocracy was checked?

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot This awareness is a strong check!

But as soon as the monarchs ego grows too big, or he becomes insane, the risk of collapse increases.

Yes, the aristocracy might step in, but at the same time, there's the counter movement of supporting the mad king in the hope of more power and favours.

It seems to me that there needs to be a pretty good balance of power between the aristocracy and the king for the aristocracy to be able to stop anything.

@monarchist @freepatriot I'll keep my fingers crossed! It's very niche so probably won't be available but you never know!

@monarchist @freepatriot Early Stephenson is not too bad, but later, he went woke, and his books expanded to twice the size.

The trick to reading Stephenson is to focus on the dialogue and skip the rest. Then the books shrink to about 200-300 pages of pretty alright science fiction.

But if you read all the book, it quickly becomes very boring. ;)