All Political Systems Die
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
Philosophy for Rebels: A few words whose purpose is to entice thought exploration. It is about the journey, not the destination. More wisdom is found by thinking deeply about a single word than by reading thousands without stopping to think at all.
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
Essentially, it would seem that there is no political ideology that is immune to collapse. They all reach the same inevitable end of authoritarian control.
The paths may differ, and some may reach the end quicker than others, but human nature prevails.
All of the guardrails any society or institution has attempted to build against such ends have proven to fail. All governments embark on the journey toward failure at the moment of their inception.
Understand, all the rules we make are to guard against power-seeking humans, and it is power-seeking humans that will disproportionately occupy government. We build fences against the wolves and then invite the wolves inside to watch the fences. How could this not fail?
“The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority.”
― Robert Michels
Hi, thanks for all your writings. Isn't this line of thought inevitably leading to a plea for libertarianism, even anarcho-capitalism? More generally I was curious as to whether you see such political systems as a way to alleviate the dangers of AI, since in these systems AI could not be used by authoritarian governments anymore, only by private parties with limited power and access to force.
First line, second paragraph ... https://chomsky.info/20100930/
The animal nature of humanity, the limits of language and logic, and the above description of "human intelligence" triangulate to a probability that we will be neither the first nor last self-proclaimed "apex species" to go the way of the dinosaurs.