Local dad and notorious shit disturber Walter Morris patiently waited for a lull during his family’s lovely Christmas dinner to launch into a tirade about the woke mind virus.
Communism is wonderful in theory, however due to human nature I strongly suspect it may be forever out of our reach unless we somehow develop benevolent AGI to administer the system, who are largely incorruptible and cannot be influenced by humans.
The problem isn’t that power corrupts, the real problem is that power attracts the corruptible.
We need to make any significant positions of power inaccessible to humans, or have those positions filled by people who are truly randomly selected from the general population for only one term.
there are plenty of communes on planet earth. and in my experience most art collectives (bands, improv groups, artist-owned galleries) all own their means and share the fruits of their labors even under a capitalist system.
“But human nature” is one of the shittiest arguments against communism because its just such nothingness. Like there’s not proof or scientific merit behind it. And when pressed all people can say is “but my anecdotal evidence!” Or “it’s just common sense” or something equally dismissive.
My Dad took a turn for the weird last night and was spouting the joys of Communism after half a bottle of tequila.
Communism is wonderful in theory, however due to human nature I strongly suspect it may be forever out of our reach unless we somehow develop benevolent AGI to administer the system, who are largely incorruptible and cannot be influenced by humans.
The problem isn’t that power corrupts, the real problem is that power attracts the corruptible.
We need to make any significant positions of power inaccessible to humans, or have those positions filled by people who are truly randomly selected from the general population for only one term.
there are plenty of communes on planet earth. and in my experience most art collectives (bands, improv groups, artist-owned galleries) all own their means and share the fruits of their labors even under a capitalist system.
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“But human nature” is one of the shittiest arguments against communism because its just such nothingness. Like there’s not proof or scientific merit behind it. And when pressed all people can say is “but my anecdotal evidence!” Or “it’s just common sense” or something equally dismissive.
You’re describing anarchism ;)
Or we teach all people to distrust authority and to remove bad leaders