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A 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
by dmos62 6y ago
A 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.