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You've actually picked up on the point I'm making, but drawn the wrong conclusions. The ideologies you've listed work in some ways, fail in others – namely tha
by 23B1 3y ago
You've actually picked up on the point I'm making, but drawn the wrong conclusions.
The ideologies you've listed work in some ways, fail in others – namely that every time they decide that 'we know best' they crumble – especially when it comes to trying to force change in behaviors deeply ingrained in our culture.
Trying to peanut-butter a solution as deeply-rooted as food – across an entire society – is (thankfully and rightly) bound to fail, regardless of how altruistic 'we' are being.
- ben_w 3y ago> The ideologies you've listed work in some ways, fail in others – namely that every time they decide that 'we know best' they crumble – especially when it comes to trying to force change in behaviors deeply ingrained in our culture. I was attempting to list all the ideologies I could remember the names of. That things eventually fail is only trivially correct because all empires eventually fail, except for the ones which still exist, which is tautologically always true from the point of view of any finite observer. But it is absolutely 100% false to say that their failures occur "every time they decide that 'we know best'", as this is not only what it even means to have laws (and thus will happen instantly regardless of how long a nation state or empire lasts), it is even demonstrated by the internal group dynamics in various primates and wolf packs.