Good point.
Our modern viewpoint is that we're the smartest we've ever been but our society has gone through massive changes just in the past 100 years, and it isn't clear that the changes we've made will produce a robust civilization that can last more than a few generations.
Certainly our global financial system for the past 50 years has been a house of cards built on eternally exponential debt growth, and part of that is from letting everyone have a say whether they had a stake in the outcome or not. Might as well give everyone everything they ask for if the money isn't real and most voters won't have to pay for it anyway.
Our modern viewpoint is that we're the smartest we've ever been but our society has gone through massive changes just in the past 100 years, and it isn't clear that the changes we've made will produce a robust civilization that can last more than a few generations.
Certainly our global financial system for the past 50 years has been a house of cards built on eternally exponential debt growth, and part of that is from letting everyone have a say whether they had a stake in the outcome or not. Might as well give everyone everything they ask for if the money isn't real and most voters won't have to pay for it anyway.
There have been examples of actual democracy throughout history where anyone meeting a certain criteria is entitled to vote on how things go.
Ancient Athens is one of the earliest examples, but its example was chosen by the founders of the United States as an example of why one would want a republic like the romans rather than a democracy like Athens. In both societies, it should be noted that there was a massive slave class which sort of messes with the concept of democracy or the republic as we conceive of it today
Middle ages Switzerland also had direct democracy in some cantons, though the different cantons were subject to their own laws and methods so some were more democratic and some were more republican. The examples of direct democracy was far from perfect, with people democratically voting to suppress the minority's human rights at times, and a big problem of the rich dominating politics.
Middle ages Scandinavia and Iceland had regional assemblies called "Things"(no, really), where any land owning man could come and participate in the rule making process. While Scandinavia had them in regions, Iceland had an entire national government set up this way. This sounds good, except that in those regions in the 10th century, land ownership was often tied to social status, so you might get a vote because your dad was friends with an important person, and your buddy might not because it wasn't common to just purchase land the way we think of it today.
So yeah, I suppose you could say "democracy" in quotation marks since most examples of direct democracy throughout the ages had some serious caveats usually tied to social class...
Ancient Athens is one of the earliest examples, but its example was chosen by the founders of the United States as an example of why one would want a republic like the romans rather than a democracy like Athens. In both societies, it should be noted that there was a massive slave class which sort of messes with the concept of democracy or the republic as we conceive of it today
Middle ages Switzerland also had direct democracy in some cantons, though the different cantons were subject to their own laws and methods so some were more democratic and some were more republican. The examples of direct democracy was far from perfect, with people democratically voting to suppress the minority's human rights at times, and a big problem of the rich dominating politics.
Middle ages Scandinavia and Iceland had regional assemblies called "Things"(no, really), where any land owning man could come and participate in the rule making process. While Scandinavia had them in regions, Iceland had an entire national government set up this way. This sounds good, except that in those regions in the 10th century, land ownership was often tied to social status, so you might get a vote because your dad was friends with an important person, and your buddy might not because it wasn't common to just purchase land the way we think of it today.
So yeah, I suppose you could say "democracy" in quotation marks since most examples of direct democracy throughout the ages had some serious caveats usually tied to social class...
I think this is how it works...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80omf7bM3Ek
For hundreds of years, iron was produced by finding particular bogs where bacteria concentrated the iron, and through the use of fire the iron was extracted and turned into something useful and valuable.
The iron age massively democratized warfare. Whereas in the bronze age metal weapons and armor were rare and valuable and only owned by the elites, in the iron age massive armies could be outfitted with metal weapons and armor.
Although it's debatable, some historians believe that this democratization of warfare also helped contribute to new forms of government such as democracy and the republic.
For hundreds of years, iron was produced by finding particular bogs where bacteria concentrated the iron, and through the use of fire the iron was extracted and turned into something useful and valuable.
The iron age massively democratized warfare. Whereas in the bronze age metal weapons and armor were rare and valuable and only owned by the elites, in the iron age massive armies could be outfitted with metal weapons and armor.
Although it's debatable, some historians believe that this democratization of warfare also helped contribute to new forms of government such as democracy and the republic.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seattle-considers-historic-law-barring-caste-discrimination/ar-AA17HZ0v
Seems like discrimination against the traditional culture of India. I thought we weren't supposed to stick our noses in traditional cultures of indigenous peoples.
Seems like discrimination against the traditional culture of India. I thought we weren't supposed to stick our noses in traditional cultures of indigenous peoples.
I got the https reverse proxy going for http/https before I got the websocket reverse proxy going lol
Yes, it's a different protocol set up in a different way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIccRIEr2gQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIccRIEr2gQ
Still not 100% understanding how it works, but I've set up a nostr relay at https://nostr.fbxl.net/
The last movie sells your next movie. A few bad movies or TV shows can crash and burn your franchise.
doubt woke but good would hurt anything, but woke and bad is like watching crappy Christian movies that are 90% message about accepting Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior and 10% crappy movie.
doubt woke but good would hurt anything, but woke and bad is like watching crappy Christian movies that are 90% message about accepting Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior and 10% crappy movie.
"I decided it was time to become the one capitalist in the town. Eventually they made me mayor even though I didn't want them to vote for me. I ran ad campaigns pointing out that I killed kittens for sport but that just made people vote for me more because my opponent killed people for sport."
I feel like the press is trying to create tay 2.0
Just like they published that hit piece on the fediverse.
Just like they published that hit piece on the fediverse.
It's always hard to figure out because fediverse instances are so varied. I think at this moment there's like 22,000 intances.
Neoconservatism as characterized by a belief in the use of American military power to promote democracy and protect national security interests is opposed by many factions across the board. On the other hand, there are factions on both the left and the right that if they don't explicitly support neoconservatism implicitly support it by supporting all the same wars and the like.
Neoconservatism has done some really smart work this political cycle tying their warmongering to all kinds of other causes. Now if you think America shouldn't have bases in 70 countries it's because you're against all the current things.
Always remember that the powerful have entire organizations filled with the world's smartest people getting paid a good wage and given unimaginable budgets to figure out how to get us to consent to their crap, and how to get each other to hate one another for slight differences in opinion.
Neoconservatism as characterized by a belief in the use of American military power to promote democracy and protect national security interests is opposed by many factions across the board. On the other hand, there are factions on both the left and the right that if they don't explicitly support neoconservatism implicitly support it by supporting all the same wars and the like.
Neoconservatism has done some really smart work this political cycle tying their warmongering to all kinds of other causes. Now if you think America shouldn't have bases in 70 countries it's because you're against all the current things.
Always remember that the powerful have entire organizations filled with the world's smartest people getting paid a good wage and given unimaginable budgets to figure out how to get us to consent to their crap, and how to get each other to hate one another for slight differences in opinion.