Prof Yvonne Streckova used to say to us that the best version of society ruling is under an enlightened monarch. To have your feudal lord enlightened is a pure luck, to have bad democracy representation is a norm. The young, women and poor are severely underrepresented, the landlords are overrepresented. The systems are such that the representatives are mostly chosen because they are rich, own media or manage old boy klans that often impared with silly mutual benefit rituals. But democracy does not need to be this way.
1stly: There used to be times of sortition. Sortition is a MP lottery, a random choice that had been tried and tested in the ancient Athens. Any citizen =anybody who might be interested has chance. We want to have our say but not all, some are wise, busy or stupid to pass on this chance to fulfil our societal potentials. The randomly chosen MPs from a pool of would-be politicians will rule better than today's professionals, since they are 1] representing underrepresented 2] not corrupted, not wasting time on status and intrigues 3] more open, flexible, fit for changing times 4] willing to put in work and learn 5] new. The problem may be the risk of drawing an unlucky string of inept manipulable MPs who would become puppets of their mentors. Also expected long term insensitivity [short term goals preference] can be a bit stronger than that of the current deputies, who know they could buy the posts for years. I would give it a try... a big one. 2ndly Soon will our decisions use some AI support. There can be direct and permanent representation using bespoke artificial brains/avatars [a program or an app] trained to permanently represent on behalf of any voting constituent who would chose to teach them his/her own nuanced views and positions. The people who would prefer this option should organise themselves in a party to have a chance to opt out from the old party system because this old system does not really represent anybody. [see how many turn up to vote] to be represented alongside of the rest who would rather keep their own traditional human MPs. Both should coexist in one parliament and evolve side by side for better ruling. The voting within this new party should be verifiable. The enlightened MPs of existing parliaments should 'betray' their parties to serve as the proxies of this direct democracy even before elections. 3rdly: A referendum. Referendums should be something normal [John Matsusaka showed the plebiscites decide better than MPs] But they are too few and too 50/50 and too expensive. The complications with voting, with costs and media theatre around today's referendums deem them quite unpopular. In places where they are really used, they work well. The voting should be electronic [say by email], verifiable in a big 2D poster [table] with all votes in a grid so that anybody can instantly see their own voting and that the total/voting result is correct. No chance for fraud.
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There were times of legends, held in papyrus, clay or parchment but mostly in memories. The legends were based in real events sprinkled with magic to appeal to the listener and their aims. They could give lessons [fables], explain nature and support the tribal coherence and morals [perseverance]. Memory of a story teller could hold amounts of today's bookcases. Some old stories are quite loose, some very detailed as precise recollection, yet no one would accuse them of being truth = exact recordings... the details omitted or added were at the discretion of the authors and the retellers; i.e. of their biases or intentions = their self deception [we can see only what we know] and memories [remembering is creative re-imagination] and cheating [intentional fraud subtly adding importance to the creative truth-benders].
Until there were means of mass recording one could not be too sure what and how happened. All tell story to add their perspectives, omitting and creating=lying. Land ownership, wars and competition made people care for their stories, destroying the non-compliant evidence. Thus there was probably a truth-bender trade of injecting buyers' importance to the stories told. However the letterpress invention = cheaper book copies made the history more and more verifiable through finding common intersections of various writings. Later on, the video evidence narrowed the truth to just one recording camera. Now we have a new truth, unlike the previous truth. We again cannot trust not even the video recordings: programmed AI can create fake video speeches that are just plain real. Or close-real, as nothing is real in the post-truth times. At least we could believe most of the 'history' of last 400 hundred years, can't we? We all remember seeing the 3 skyscrapers [twins + building 7 WTC of 49 floors] coming down in a demolition fashion on the 9/11 as first skyscrapers' live demolition by terrorism or fire or greedy owners. Can history teach us something? Not really. 1stly the devil and god are in the details and the shadow figures, collective will and karma are working behind the scenes, avoiding being recognised and/or recorded, 2ndly we have no clue what matters and what causes what [look at economics theories] 3rdly we see things through emotional lenses of our cultural background stories, unable to perceive new, rare and downplaying opposing stories. 4thly the world is changing faster and faster and the most of nowadays circumstances and things has 'never-before' qualities. So why so many are defined by history? Being proud of someone's false memories and half-truths? The guy who slew the dragon was my dear leader. On a personal level one needs to lean onto something.... [assumption] or rather be safe and comfortable. If not barking the same melody, one is at risk of being scolded or killed. Many nations and religions invest in creation of their stories. The kids are taught to follow the authority. To ask: who would I be without my nation's [surely proud] history / my bestest cultural heritage is like an apostasy.... death penalty, anyone? Luckily the history was good ... even the 9/11 collapse was good for most of the millennials [born after 2002] since without it they would not exist... their father, not only would not impregnate their mother on the same sperm day, but often would not even meet her. So thank you mami, pappi as well as all the history [causality mesh] through volcanoes, apes, immaculate conception, Genghis Khans, Lincoln, Stalin and pals etc for so far pleasantish existence. .. I wonder if we will ever be able to bend time to find out how random this mesh of causality is. Hindsight may suggest all was inevitable but I believe many forks had been decided by a pure chance of 50.00000000000000000000000000001% further on one side than on the other in the particular cause-time, much randomer than a winner sperm.. One should realise we tend to see a throne since we see ourselves naturally in the centre of the universe. Animals see/feel themselves in the centre too, but they leave it at that. We do not, we ponder, look for patterns and reasons. We find them [invent rather than discover] and so we see ourselves justifiably, even more so, quite a bit more unique [since we deal with something higher than food, sex and security ...to feel special] ....than would be fairly deserved. Why deserved, is not moral relative? It is, but I still think it is not fair to harm other species' cultures. They have cultures but not powered by pride and competition. They do not compete with our cultures. Yet we input noise or cut their communication. Why? Since some our cultures compete a lot. The food for a message is emotion. For culture to spread there must be some. We are invested in patterns and reasons we thought we discovered and we amplify them way beyond reasonable. [reasonable purveying is personal sharing across 4 generations of a tribe or a small nation] The result of cultures in competition is paranoia and deafness to present reality. In post-truth world one's only fulcrum is their own paranoia. Human cultures [90% of them] are much more spread and noisier than that of whales, apes or wolfs packs. Used to compete and roar where ever there is free space. The harm is not just poisoning and killing, it starts with jamming. As if there was an intention to puzzle the enemy first...
Are we the only that have souls? What is a soul anyway? An ability to observe the future self i.e. its saving aka the fate. All is equipped with some sort of self preservation. Most beings worth of the name have instincts, programs [tweaked by evolution] plus the ability of learning. Learning means, they can create some habits to alter their pre-programmed behaviours. Now, the soul observes and reflecting on the story, adds its hue to the habits. The core is in why/how a soul reacts to a story. Well, to be relevant [produce emotions] a story needs to touch games, food, sex and security [family, environment's harmony]. Soul reacts to the emotions. Animals have them too. Animals also have temperaments [that's how one defines an animal = a creature with temperament]. Fish play, some birds mourn and recognise themselves in a mirror. Dolphins like to fuck in front of one. Many herds care for all members. Apes can sign language and Russians love their children too. We can copy/parrot, learn and communicate better than other animals. Animals teach mostly by example, we can by books or videos too, but our instinct is best in personal settings where micro emotions show way. Our speciality is communication and knowledge sharing.. We have the strong innate mimicking/mirroring ability, because only we can communicate a comprehensive know-how as a safe way to anything in a stable environment. The instinct evolved in slow changing settings. It is connected with bonding and belonging. Our modern environments are far from stable. Even the true is not the old true. Mirroring feels good, yet it results often in rigidity and groupthink. The Man looks stupid not just on the macro, sawing out his own branch, but also at the micro scale where culture with its silly enchantments [cults, lotteries, ponzi schemes, political and sport supporting] occur.
You are special. And you too. We all are unique. There are at least 2 young ginger Brits who look like Ed Sheeran. Only one of them does parkour. I forgot his name yet both are unique... Passing for Ed Sheeran, one sure has an interesting public life .
Good for them. All is full of love...More food, sex, fun and security. Chiselled in any DNA, there are hidden the jewels of Existence. Look at instincts and behaviours of animals and insects. They are immensely beautiful, bespoke and complicated. All intertwingled and evolved. Evolution works. The evidence is not in beauty of complex behaviours but in its quick, human caused, instances: Deep Learning algorithms, spreading of memes on/about a culture or inbreeding antibiotics-resistant bacteria. The process is somewhat magic in its detail, so as it's quick. Often we do not know what mutations caused what, but it works. Powered by ethereal thirst for existence, the God's biggest invention. |
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