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"Society" (i.e. northern European and Anglophone) doesn't want to be improved.
by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
"Society" (i.e. northern European and Anglophone) doesn't want to be improved.
- JuniperMesos 4mo agoA more nuanced version of this argument is, different people in democratic electorates disagree wildly on what constitutes an improvement to society. A practice or institution that is an improvement to one constituency is a detriment to another constituency, and that other constituency will seek to destroy the practice the moment they have the electoral power to do so.
- FrankWilhoit 4mo agoAll while successive technological discoveries raise the minimum standard of thought: vertiginously, incomprehensibly, unattainably. Something's got to give.
- curtisblaine 4mo agoNormally "improvements" penalize group A to favour group B; if group A is the majority, they will outvote the "improvement" in any democratic process.