I don’t support the idea that you just blindly hand your responsibility for understanding and resolving issues to anyone else, let alone the state.
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I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).
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These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).