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A lot of people are looking for an all controlling force in the country or world instead, I see a lot of demigods that rule their domain, curating complete aut
by yieldcrv 3y ago
A lot of people are looking for an all controlling force in the country or world
instead, I see a lot of demigods that rule their domain, curating complete autonomy as long as they stay within the confines they finessed
- foobarian 3y agoAnybody working in University IT can attest to this :-)
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoYou don't need a formal conspiracy when you have an elite with converging interests.
- godelski 3y agoThere's a joke from a comedian I forget if it is L̶o̶u̶i̶s̶ ̶C̶K̶ George Carlin o̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶. But basically is along the lines that you don't have explicitly collude when you all come from the same backgrounds. The interests are aligned already. It's pointing out that representatives need to actually be from representative populations of people. But he did it in a funny way, this comment really isn't. Edit: thanks lo_zamoyski. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoGeorge Carlin, and he wasn't joking. This was a point he made during an interview in all seriousness.
- godelski 3y agoThat was it thank! Updated my post
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- avgcorrection 3y agoMight be the comedian Avram Chomsky.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIf you want to read about how the media is also roped into these incentive structures, read Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIf only the middle and lower class could do that. But they argue amongst each other over the relative scraps. Even arguing what a "middle class" is these days.
- stareatgoats 3y agoYou mean to say that no one is running the world, not even behind the scenes, or even behind behind the scenes? You are leaving us without anyone to blame! Daring I must say.
- sroussey 3y agoCertainly not a way to get clicks. People are eager to see patterns—it’s in our wetware. For example: two podcasts about JFK: one is about a lone gunman, the other a secret conspiracy and coverup. Which will be more interesting? Get more of an audience?
- wizzwizz4 3y agoConsider “Oswald: the man who took on the United States Secret Service, and won”. I'm not particularly interested in US history, but I think I'd find this much more interesting than yet another conspiracy podcast.
- yieldcrv 3y agofunny, but another thing I think people miss is that there are opportunists for every outcome think your controversial head of state is being controlled by their buddies from university that run some private equity funds well so would the other head of state if they won the election! different buddies its more like if you dont also have a plan for outsized influence, then thats the biggest outlier and inefficient way of navigating the system we have
- fooop 3y agothe world these days is becoming more and more medieval: many different actors, all competing with one another, at different levels of power. Imo, it's a good thing: regular ppl will be more suspicious about power overall and not make as many bad safety/convenience trades.
- j45 3y agoAssuming people are educated and aware enough to begin with to recognize and then deal with it. The right to read was literally only locked up a few hundred years ago.
- fooop 3y agothese things are much more transparent than us experts like to think they are - people making "uneducated" decisions are often just making decisions that don't fall in line with the expectations of the "educated". Power is legible regardless of whether you know how to read or not (or code (or do immunological research)).