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@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.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Capitalism is in my view the only working economic theory, mainly because it is simply classical economics.

Everything else requires government/politics to create substitutes for the market.

This does not end well.

@h4890 @freepatriot

Wisdom comes from the same process as adaptation, just at a finer level of detail (and longer time scale).

The idea of the individual improving himself instead of looking for a universal solution is also more compatible with Darwin.

As a nihilist, I simply refrain from engaging in the social projection of a consensual hallucination in which absolute, universal, and objective forms of truth, values, and communications exist. It is not an accurate model.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The hurricanes are scary, but there are a lot of abandoned oil platforms on the gulf.

It may be that a non-socialist community would have to be constantly moving, like a giant cruise ship but without the bullshit.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The podcast is similar. We had a great discussion in part on how the Swedish language influenced Swedish death metal riffs.

Well, now that's something worth thinking about... if you are me.