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@h4890 @freepatriot

At the very least:

* Ensure competence
* Anything done by government must benefit everyone
* Reward the good
* Remove the bad

Government should not be as complex as people make it out to be these days.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Don't hate me, but politics is a market.

Our politicians are created by our voters.

What the voters want to buy, they vote for.

Illusion? Those are the best sellers!

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I distrust popular movements. They are almost always lies.

The check on monarchy is always the aristocracy. This worked until the church got involved.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

For a monarch, the _only_ success that can be had is in making a stronger society for the long-term duration.

They are judged by history, and aware of it before all else.

@h4890 @freepatriot

Ultimately, culture is based on overlap of ends/goals.

Even if this is simple as trying to survive in some barren place.

@h4890 @freepatriot

"Truth" is a human symbolic token series representing a conception of what is real.

Science works because reality is real, and sometimes we can understand each other enough to pass on basic bits of wisdom about how reality operates.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The "Gothenburg sound" is legendary in underground metal.

Looks interesting, and I will keep an eye out for this on the usual... um... file archiving areas.

@h4890 @cjd @korsier @freepatriot

To enable specialization, in other words.

I am skeptical of education. Those who can benefit it tend to require only general guidance.

The rest simply use it as a step up above their actual level of competence.

@h4890 @freepatriot

I have never been able to read Neal Stephenson.

But, I like the idea of a repurposed cargo ship with a nuclear reactor, cruising the globe, maybe meeting up with even larger market and repair ships... get away from the states entirely.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

People always want more laws, but they lead to this kind of circumstance.

If you want to protect the wolves, protect their territory.

Interesting story... disturbing.

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot

Well, I don't know about the "best", but certainly better than what you get in a modern democracy.

In small nations, missteps become very visible, which creates a pressure to perform. Perhaps that is why micronations that are monarchies perform so well? The rulers do not want to lose their property and be the end of their line. Therefore they cannot exploit their subjects, but must listen to them.

Choice of kings / BDFL is the best system we know of, that's how open source and the fedi works.

If you don't have choice, you're a slave. Being a slave to the will of the majority somewhat blunts the pain (not much though).

@cjd @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

There may be some nuance here too.

I think we are coming to the state to realize that social engineering, micromanagement, and scientific administration are dead ends.

We cannot force everyone into a mold and produce perfect humans.

It's just not how things work!

@EvolLove @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I do not buy the Jewish world conspiracy theory. It is not logically consistent with what I have observed.

However, let us look at your important point: capitalism leads to communism.

How is this so? The same way the kings led to the rise of the middle class... prosperity frees up people to be illogical.

I tend to see what you are targeting here as consumerism more than capitalism.

Consumerism happens when people have enough free stuff that their purchasing decisions do not have impact on their futures.