| VAMatt said: It seems to me that you have blinders on. You're talking about the 1984-like states and how bad they are (and, you're right). Then you call for an organization of those same states to reign themselves in. If you truly think that's a reasonable system, with a realistic chance to be a net-positive for humanity, I'd like to have some of the shit you're smoking. |
I have no blinders. You do. You refuse to address the parts of my comment that address your blinders. You seem to be unable to conceive of global collective action being democratic. You seem to be unable to comprehend that there is more than one form of power, besides government, that can restrict your liberty. I even offered you the hypothetical possibility of a future institution built democratically from the ground up using technology rather than laws, but that's either beyond your imagination or you really are against collective action. And you seem to not get that destroying government from the bottom up won't work, because without a sufficiently powerful institution or series of institutions, government or otherwise, you cannot defeat a 1984 state. Your plan is to have no plan and let someone else worry about it because you don't think it will ever affect you.
