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 :)
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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GenericUser@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 3y
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
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
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?