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If the purpose of government is to ensure stability (and particularly to ensure the stability of the people in power), that would seem fundamentally at odds wit
by dustingetz 8y ago
If the purpose of government is to ensure stability (and particularly to ensure the stability of the people in power), that would seem fundamentally at odds with disruptive innovation and exponential progress. I don't think it can be stabilized, more likely it shatters under the strain, and something new and different emerges from the wreckage
- simcop2387 8y agoAs much as I disagree with her politics, the Ayn Rand novel Anthem somewhat explores an extreme version of this idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)