Political theory

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johnaweiss•...

At core, your statement is anti-authoritarian. At core, the most anti-authoritarian ideology in existence is called "Anarchism". Perhaps you think of yourself as an Anarchist. I think you're not one. To oppose all forms of organization isn't Anarchist....

Democracy is broken. We can’t make democracy work at scale given current tech levels. It’s not even “the best bad idea we have so far.” It’s just broken.

No one is qualified to lead hundreds of millions of people at the nexus of a global economy. No one is even qualified to evaluate whether someone else might do it. So we fall back to the best marketer/influencer, which is worse than many other potential options.

#Deeptakes

pete•...

I wish I knew. I don't really have a manifesto about it or a plan, but my frame or hope when I wrote this was trying to pop people out the assumption that democracy is obviously great and definitely work once we correct a few recent minor issues....

philosophy

democracy

political theory

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Democracy is broken. We can’t make democracy work at scale given current tech levels. It’s not even “the best bad idea we have so far.” It’s just broken.

No one is qualified to lead hundreds of millions of people at the nexus of a global economy. No one is even qualified to evaluate whether someone else might do it. So we fall back to the best marketer/influencer, which is worse than many other potential options.

#Deeptakes

pete•...

Well, just to calibrate, I find it plausible that a literally random lottery for all high offices would be an improvement. Maybe with some very basic inclusion criteria, so that every election cycle we get a basically normal person to just fuck around and find out....

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electoral systems

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pete•...

American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world

A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes....