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You cannot have democracy without belief in objective truth. You have described a platform that supports mob rule, not one that supports democracy and not one
by hayst4ck 4y ago
You cannot have democracy without belief in objective truth.
You have described a platform that supports mob rule, not one that supports democracy and not one that supports objective truth.
You sound pretty young, and I certainly remember thinking things like what you wrote. Now that I am older, peace is a less attractive word. Far too often peace means someone not resisting the use of force, rather than peace meaning force not being used. The distinction is subtle but deeply important.
If you want to become a little more politically mature, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder is probably both a person you would agree with from a values perspective and a person who would say you are very wrong.
You sound motivated and like you want to help the world with Tech. In my early 20's I scoffed at the government. Having grown older, I wish I had not been so anti-government. If you want to help the world with tech, you should checkout the USDS and put your skills to use there.
If fairtalk picks up, it will just be a conservative echo-chamber because it describes a conservative belief system. Liberal people would never want to be a part of it because the idea of objective truth, truth without contradiction, is a core liberal belief. If 70% of the people don't believe in global warming, that doesn't matter if there is actually global warming. The majority thinking there is global warming has no bearing on whether there is actually global warming or not.
> Fairtalk is a social platform that lets the majority decide everything.
I hope you understand that this describes "might makes right."
- cookiengineer 4y agoWhat he's saying: mob rule can also be marketing that's being pushed out by the governments. Take a look at the Philippines, where the son of the thief of the biggest tax heist in history now reshaped his image into something like "I did it to protect you"... And is now the president. Statistical truth is not objective truth, and that's why corporates and their lobbyists are in power; because they have the means to change the statistics. Examples that come to mind are the works of Noam Chomsky, and especially the propaganda machines that Goebbels invented in the second world war, and these mechanics are still used today to propagate the image of the "free cowboy that smokes because it is cool".