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That assumes that progress in civilization is a forward path and that there are no local minima that are both extremely difficult to get out of given the instit
by akiselev 8y ago
That assumes that progress in civilization is a forward path and that there are no local minima that are both extremely difficult to get out of given the institutions that got them there and dangerously unstable. Entropy eats away at systems no matter the path we chose and there is no guarantee that the end result of our current path won't be worse than a traumatic reshuffle now.
I'm not advocating revolution, having seen the end result of one first hand, but to say that revolution is shortsighted entirely misses the forrest for the trees. All complex systems, be they biological organisms or deep learning neural networks, need randomness injected into them or they will fail to respond to the randomness of the environment around them. In the case of societies and organisms, that could very well mean extinction.
It's a risk-reward calculation like any action.
- whatshisface 8y agoI'd want a revolution like I'd want to have my molecules scrambled by standing in the LHC beam - sure, maybe I'll end up in a superior configuration, but the odds are that if I am at all happy today in even the slightest way, a randomly chosen state will regress me to the mean of complete, brutal dysfunction.
- dmix 8y agoViolence tends to be the dynamic in which power is doled out in the anarchy of post-revolutionary states. Whether it's direct violence against political groups or against honest hardworking citizens so their property can be handed to another group. Usually it's a little of both.
- tartoran 8y agoDid you experience a revolution firsthand? Learned something from it?
- thelasthuman 8y agoElections are supposed to be bloodless revolutions. If you can't effect change through the electoral system, then the non violent solution is to revolutionize how we vote. Relevant videos (IMO) First Past The Post Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo Range Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig Single Transferable Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI Alternative Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE Mixed-Member Proportional Representation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU Bonus video This video will make you angry - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
- boomboomsubban 8y agoI hate to be a downer, but that would require an amendment that drastically hurts both parties. Just try and imagine it passing, remembering that you would be asking your elected representative to give up some of their power.
- idontpost 8y agoNo it wouldn't. Voting methods and how presidential electors are chosen are entirely up to the states.