Baby's first political thought

"What if people make a bad decision? We should have one really smart guy in charge instead"

Wow fucking groundbreaking who needs the last few thousand years of political thought about the shortcomings of exactly that idea

Imagine knowing that voting is dumb when people can just vote for bad things and also knowing what good things actually look like and then saying that instead of a materialist restructuring of the human condition around collective good instead of capitalism, she breaks out an argument that was kind of off-putting and weird when Socrates did it.

Good news! The Lord has chosen me!

Which lord? Cause uh, Becky's doin' coke if she thinks I'd allow some Bronze Age storm god from a desert that has nothing to do with me establish who's gonna 'rule' me lmfao.

When your entire political education is introductory Plato and The Bible.

being christian publicly is so embarrassing. either go all the way and convert to islam or keep it to yourself

Death to America

Religion just stops analysis and rational thinking dead in its tracks. This isn't new lol

She had me in the first half

Isn't Elizabeth Bruening a Catholic? She already has a dumb theocracy run by a goofball in robes and it sucks ass. "hey what if the Vatican ruled the whole world" wow what a concept, guess they'll give anyone a Pulitzer these days huh

mfw you need Jacobins but all you have is Jacobin

Hear me out, so what we do is this:

• Humans are naturally fallible and even smart ones are prone to snap judgment on partial or biased information or emotional entanglement
• So let's create a decisionmaking AI - we can teach it how to govern fairly and it will make the best decisions
• But wait, any AI we create is naturally going to be programmed with our limited point of view in mind and may end up making a weird choice due to a programming flaw or edge case it wasn't trained to handle
• So what we do is create two more AIs, with slightly different parameterizations and randomized training scenarios
• The three AIs will act as checks and balances on one another
• We can even try to embody different aspects of how humans approach problems and make decisions, using something like Jungian archetypes to help choose among difficult tradeoffs
• Everything will be fine

spoiler

unless

Which Lord?

Because S'pht-Kr, The Grand Compiler would probably take too long to make a decision

Hear me out.

What we do is we have a school, let's call it philosophy school, and anyone can join it!

This philosophy school teaches a philosophy to everyone that makes legislation in society commits to.

These people come out of philosophy school and then spend some of their time listening to the concerns of the people in their district and some of their time solving those problems, perhaps around tables where other members of the philosophy school also weigh-in with ideas.

People with the most experience sit at higher up tables in the hierarchy and make more widespread decisions together.

These people regularly sit around a very large table and choose a core leadership group who make the most importantist of decisions and set the overall direction of the group.

We can call it philosophyism.

I thought the monarch rules over the lords?

The fuck does she mean "ideally the lord"? There are other options that are almost as good as the lord!? Don't throw away the idea just because God hasn't picked an absolute monarch, this cadre of witch doctors is actually very close to God, you won't even notice the difference!

First year philosophy student reads Plato once and this happens.

lol, it would be fun to replace the names with people from the end of Rome and/or the Dark Ages (sorry, I know it's not the best term, but I feel like it makes the point better)

Plato and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Yeah, I'd love to live in a state with a wise stalinist leader who directs all production to a humane end. It's not real and we need to account for the limits of authoritarian rule (she's right in the first half of the tweets ofc, we shouldn't fetishize democracy), her "solution" is just idealism.

Oh. I was only aware of the other Breunig. Being a staff writer for The Vertlartnic is sufficient scarlet letter for me, thanks.

Are these one of the reactionary feudalist socialists Marx talked about in the Communist Manifesto?

Actually truly believe this is just a joke lol no way she actually is a monarchist haha

The Lord doesn't have a great policy track record tbh.

First he created all humans in his own image and then decided that he doesn't like them, which is a huge self-own. He then killed them in a huge flood which is basically the first genocide.

When people tried to unionize and build the tower of Babylon, he mixed up their languages so that they can't communicate with each other (common union busting tactic).

I don't think this guy should choose our philosopher-monarch

liz bruenig nizari isma'ili arc

Lol