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I think it's better to move past the individual question entirely. I tell them to imagine whatever political power they fear the most and ask themselves how it
by __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
I think it's better to move past the individual question entirely. I tell them to imagine whatever political power they fear the most and ask themselves how it would likely behave if it knew nobody could coordinate against it in secret.
I have rather little to hide myself but I want desperately for you to be able to hide something. Otherwise we're together a worse deterrent against authorities behaving badly as we would otherwise be.
- extraisland 1y agoThe majority of people I've found will dismiss any arguments like this until something happens to them or someone they know.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoI find it quite personally impactful that I've never had to bend the knee to a king. Without the ability of certain historical figures to keep secrets from their king, I think things would be quite different in that regard. If most people can reason about the current historical moment as it relates to policy decisions, well I guess that's an equally dangerous sort of problem.
- extraisland 1y ago> If most people can reason about the current historical moment as it relates to policy decisions, well I guess that's an equally dangerous sort of problem. Firstly I am not sure what "current historical moment" means. Generally most people don't have the will, knowledge or knowhow to understand political policy. Political policy seems to be constantly at odds with reality (if you listen to Dominic Cummings Q/A and/or Interviews he spells out how dysfunctional it is). Even if that is the case more often than not now the power structures in the Western World are setup in a particular way where it is opaque, protects itself and does not serve the people that it is suppose to govern.