Birdsleep wrote:
The best ideology can be perverted and twisted into something unhealthy, if there are enough
psychopaths pulling the strings and enough ignorant people to put up with it.
Yes, this observation is spot-on. There is significant evidence that typical human brains are primarily cultural copying machines. The fidelity of the copying mechanism is quite impressive, certainly from an autistic perspective. Some researchers even present the human ability to copy behaviour as the greatest achievement of humanity. Psychopaths seem to have an intuitive understanding of the typical human copying mechanism, and they simply present their victims with templates that serve their special interest in dominance, and then know exactly how to activate the copy button... again and again. The hierarchical structure of societies is no accident. It is the result of psychopaths playing copying machine operator with the typical population.
Mainstream society is programmed to propagate psychopathic social pyramid schemes and associated forms of corruption.
Birdsleep wrote:
Yesterday we had elections in New Zealand, and in spite of the timely exposure of the despicable corruption
of the current government, the same government got voted into power again,which clearly shows,
that society at large is not ready to demand fairness and integrity from it's leadership.
Let alone to work out fair and wise consensus solutions in a non-hierarchical way.
I also cast my vote in that election. It was depressing to see the extent to which the media is complicit with the establishment, blocking off critical discussions and using linguistic engineering to create a systematic bias designed to protect established institutions.
Birdsleep wrote:
I'm definitely in favor of such a mature system. But I would call it rather Synarchy than Anarchy, a system where each member has the well-being of all the others in mind.
Like a bee-hive. As a beekeeper I know that bees are true anarchists, because no worker bee ever tells
another worker bee what it has to do, but all love to work for the common good of their hive,
because they instinctively know how much they depend on each other.
(Of course it's a bad comparison, because humans are more individualistic and complex than insects, but even bees are not like cyborgs at all, that is a wrong stereotype.)
Humans are mainly special in their ability to consciously ignore physical reality, even to the extent where it threatens human existence on the planet. Humans have a lot to learn from other species. Nature is not nearly as competitive as the modern social Darwinists would like to have us believe. Two very interesting books on this topic:
- MUTUAL AID - A FACTOR OF EVOLUTION, BY P. KROPOTKIN, published 1902,
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4341- The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, published 2012,
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Empathy-Natur ... B006WB7KEAWhat worries me is that the ruling sociopaths seem to be organized in very efficient networks, while autistic individuals who would counter them don't have a tendency to get much organized.
Although organized groups can easily be infiltrated and destroyed from within by treason or sabotage,
lone individuals can be more easily harassed, especially when they have already enough on their plate merely surviving with an autistic condition.
Also ruthless crime and deception seem to have an unfair advantage over truthfulness and integrity, especially with the average person so willingly believing the most blatant lies.
The playing-field is not level. How could this planet ever be a nice place to live under such circumstances?
It looks pretty hopeless, unless autism is becoming the norm at some time in the not so far future, before the planet gets damaged and poisoned beyond repair.
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