I posit that even the utopian futures will require something like it to preserve the utopias. Defensive Democracy will eventually see it as a necessary evil. The questions become: when? where first and where last? etc.

Discuss :)

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    1 year ago

    Yeah thats a hot take alright a hot steaming pile of a take for sure. Remember your outlook beliefs and politics may be popular right now but there will certainly come a time when they won’t be and you too will be “problamatic” and that social credit system you vaunt now can and WILL be turned against you

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      1 year ago

      that […] system you vaunt now can and WILL be turned against you

      This is true of almost any institution if the checks and balances are broken. Courts are great, but kangaroo courts are terrible. Democracy is great, until it elects a dictator. Etc.

      Just because we don’t personally like an idea doesn’t mean it is avoidable from the perspective of a civilization.

      If you work on the assumption that it is unavoidable: what checks and balances make it palatable?

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        1 year ago

        The point is not to have it come to pass period. Just because you personally like an idea because it fits into your world view doesn’t mean that’s it’s necessary, or unavoidable. Thinking about checks and balances is admitting defeat. if you want a thought experiment think about all the ways that current government are trying to bring this about and instead of checks and balances think about was to push back and get rid of such a system.