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I'd prefer power in the hands of the few. The selection of the few needs fine tuning and fixing though. The cumulative intelligence and decision making capabil
by juk5 10y ago
I'd prefer power in the hands of the few. The selection of the few needs fine tuning and fixing though.
The cumulative intelligence and decision making capability of the herd is great at wasting everyone's time and the worlds resources. Thanks to visionary lizard person Mark Zuckerberg, we are all connected now whether we like it or not. And the stampeding brainless herd is going to be dragging each one of us in directions we have no control over.
As long as China doesn't implode, they have an opportunity here to show the world a way out. If they do implode we have to just wait around for a better, more effective centralized system to evolve.
- conanbatt 10y agoIts impossible for a few to represent the interest of many. So the simpler the choice, the less representative it is. It should be more important to give power to the person running your city than your country, because his policies are way more likely to make an impact in your daily life. Making a oversimplifying comparison, centralization is usually against the robustness and efficiency of a system, since it adds a central point of failure. In practice, for me, it add so many layers of abstraction that the ones at the top make decisions on things very different than what the ones at the bottom care about. Centralization was practical before, but now with technology we have an increased capacity of descentralization.