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You're absolutely right, but that's just one manifestation of our society having problems with long-term goals. I'd say it's insecurity that draws people to sho
by dmos62 6y ago
You're absolutely right, but that's just one manifestation of our society having problems with long-term goals. I'd say it's insecurity that draws people to short-sighted goals and leaders.
- kragen 6y agoThe humans are not good at long-term thinking. Any proposed solution that depends on them getting good at long-term thinking, en masse, is doomed to failure. Let's figure out how we can leverage the few humans capable of thinking slightly further out than the immediate present — 8 to 32 years, say — into sustained progress, while protecting that progress from destruction by the senseless masses who call it "weird", "scary", "pedantic", "odd", "creepy", "arrogant", "Satanic", "entitled", "problematic", "elitist", "gross", :unnatural", and "witchcraft".
- dmos62 6y agoA la enlightened dictature? I don't think that politics (as in collective decision making) should be disregarded. The inertia of the masses can feel like a drag, but I think that for every hacker that devotes himself to some specific long-term goal, there should be a hacker that devotes himself to politics and undoing that seemingly paralising inertia.
- kragen 6y agoI am not in favor of any kind of dictatorship, although obviously a dark dictatorship is even worse than an enlightened one. Here in Argentina Perón's supposedly enlightened dictatorship — supported by the masses — destroyed the universities' academic freedom, and therefore the universities themselves, and squandered our chances of nuclear-energy leadership on a politically-favored con man who claimed to have built a usable fusion reactor.