tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post8914724925175208481..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Alternative social systems and individual wellbeingDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-43279926557777650142023-03-02T22:09:35.773-05:002023-03-02T22:09:35.773-05:00I want to make an additional point on the specific...I want to make an additional point on the specifics of the failing of the society of USA. USA is rather old in comparison and that is one point for institutions which are out of time, hardened inequalities, but it still factually is just an assembly of british colonies historically. This can be proved by the fact that the society of US has not gone through a slavery discussion which is needed to fully become a modern country, not just a weird federation. One could make a point that the us is fleeing that discussion by global distraction. Even worse they still permeate slavery in form of employism through their roman british us imperial world dominance. Secondly to maintain dominance outwardly global in a rising world the us elites accept high levels of inner pressure and tearing, but ultimately that strategy will fail due to lack of growth possibility. The last point is that their institutions with the most important of all being balance of powers fail because they can be bought. When money can buy law I would rate you as a failed state, I personally rate the us as a failed state therefor. The us institutions are sold, that is the price of capitalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-30515684988586588292023-03-02T21:31:19.182-05:002023-03-02T21:31:19.182-05:00The polish joke is brilliant. People will always h...The polish joke is brilliant. People will always have different values and abilities. There is not a perfect society and if there were one it would also be the ultimate dystopia. The alternativelessness of modernity is frightening, slowly life is circeled in, the frogs are slowly boiled. Very well described though I was looking for information what to make of all of it. Have we really still not reached the phase where we could understand the bigger picture and I mean outside of our individual view and outside of the view of the mental constraints of our own race, outside the specifics of our history, outside of what thinker a or scientist b 50 years ago had to say. Where is the reality of that, meaning the biological, natural makeup of a complex society, the view of sitting beside the ant hill. Nature does not care for certain species nore has the individual any significance other than giving forth in time genetic information. Several things amaze me about us humans. The need to build a society that leaves no alternatives, frightening. The failure to understand that we are programmed in our abilities and what that means about reality. Everybody is working towards what exactly, why is noone asking towards what we work so well together. Division of labor, why is noone asking about the price we pay for it. To me that is future dilemma. Either we all work together in some hardened inequality which is the ultimate dystopia or there is a balance of powers which will be a constant friction. Maybe more intelligent people in the next decades might be able to open those discussions. I also wonder if we have reached a barrier of mental ability or not questioning the makeup of us is baked into our programming. The weird thing is that the near future of society is surprisingly foreseeable and predictable, any hardened model will eventually lead to a dystopia in which the exceptional will dictate, computation will accelerate since division of labor is limited due to humans not being countless, self accelerating software will be mankinds new multiplier. For what though, for the sake of it,I find that hard to believe. Any constant society is an indicator of problematic values, contrary to the modern believe that stability is only good. Stability also always means cemented inequality and intrusion of individual rights. I fear we stuck with accelerated stable inequality. I hate religion but it is funny how in the regimes that grew out of the left stupidity religion became a counter power. These counter powers seem to be part of some natural self organizing process. Anyways I enjoyed your article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-8356169035591501152020-05-28T05:45:22.710-04:002020-05-28T05:45:22.710-04:00It's easy to have social trust when nearly eve...It's easy to have social trust when nearly everyone looks like you and speaks like you and lives like you and loves like you and pays pretty much the same amount in taxes etc. It's not so easy when you're "a nation of immigrants" where half the people think the other half are racist to the core and the latter think the former would murder them in their sleep if they could get away with it as they can with, say, looting a burning city as if they were the Vandals at the sack of Rome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com