Submitted by New-Shop-7539 t3_11dp5lj in Futurology
NerdforceHeroes t1_jaa6d9u wrote
Reply to comment by New-Shop-7539 in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539
Questions regarding your ideology:
Who picks this group of apparently enlightened humans?
How do they make the world come to together?
How do they deal with those who don't want to come together?
How would they deal with future generations who don't want to live under their rule?
New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaa7717 wrote
All undecided. That's why we need to THINK!!!
NerdforceHeroes t1_jaa87oe wrote
People have. This has all been tried before.
Vanguard socialism was the idea that a group of enlightened revolutionaries needed to lead the people towards the coming socialist utopia. The Vanguard became concerned only with maintaining its own power and the totalitarian Soviet Union was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism
I believe humans are inherently good but we are also inherently corruptible. Thats why the most successful modern societies contain transparent institutions and frequent elections, so that the people can hold their leaders to account and ensure they work to make the nation as a whole richer, rather than just their own chequebooks.
New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaa9j5f wrote
I'll get back to you!!!!
acutelychronicpanic t1_jaa9vz7 wrote
People have been having this conversation for a long time. Good government is hard. Read history, read political science and economics, and definitely read up on ethics.
New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaaar3h wrote
I want to help solve the world's problems. I do need to know about the stupidity of our ancestors
acutelychronicpanic t1_jaan8nl wrote
I hope you succeed in making the world a better place. Just don't focus so much on efficiency and perfect solutions. They can be short-sighted.
It seems to me like you have an idea for what the ideal world might look like. But beware that it would be an unstable solution. The problem with central control is that it is fragile. Voting systems are inefficient, but they are more robust and harder to corrupt. Still corruptible, obviously, but less so.
You want to seek a system that can withstand the pressures and corruption of the real world.
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NerdforceHeroes t1_jaa9ien wrote
Also its not undecided. The only way to do all that is with a totalitarian police state.
New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaaagbw wrote
Or humans stop being silly
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