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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Our species has many features, some positive, some negative. Unfortunately, the positive, creative, and generous spirit embodied by men and women who wish to share ideas with benefit to all equally are overwhelmed by the spirit embodied by the strong majority of people, who are selfish and look only to develop technologies that allow them advantage over others. This is a human nature problem. Viewing my success relative to others as more important than our success as a group is the dominant personality type. The competition this kind of personality creates - spread throughout the population - has led us to today's world. Those who work to help all of us with no advantage to some over others are consistently suppressed as a "threat" to those jealously guarding their own stash of "power". Unless this philosophical preference for self-interest can be overcome in favor of the recognition that ideas that help the whole without advantaging any within that whole are the only way we will survive as a species, the story told in this video repeats ad nauseum. At this point, humanity's extinction appears most likely to be caused by our inability to prefer harmony with each other rather than constant, vicious and cruel competition with each other, with nature, and with God itself.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I got two "secret" ingredients to "solve" most minty "problems" of humane (<- the "e" is fully intentional) existence:

  • Steal code and ideas. Like Aaron Swartz proposed by action, knowledge shouldn't be "hideable" in times, like ours, right now.

This not only is outdated, it also puts experts in the wrong places, instead of their "natural" ones.

  • Let "the people" decide.

Present actual solutions and do a public vote.

Civilized: Where the creators have to take not only the money, like nowadays, but also the responsibility for their decision.

By explaining themselves, of course.

Implement this kind of "sanity":

BOOM:

  • patent trolling is dead
  • hinders corruption
  • encourages "innovation"

I also suppose that a lot of litigation lawyers could be permanently out of business with this one.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

SAVED!!!

Let "the people" decide.

I agree. Limited as it may be, I prefer mob rule over "elite" or "expert" rule - especially in this communication age.

Even shitty solutions are better than no solutions or the opposite of solutions.

Sperm and lawyers have a one in a million chance of being human.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ancient Greece wasn't that bad but nowadays our percepted reality becomes more Orwellian by the second.

And (as usual) it isn't this "bad people do bad things" (because where is the news in this after centuries of human culture actually, then ?) but more like most sheeple in there fucfic-trance watching it happening.

Actual democracy is a process and imho those old Greek mofos - nonetheless - were nearer to it than we will probably ever get to it.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ancient Greece wasn't that bad

Can I borrow your time machine so I may see for myself too?

reality becomes more Orwellian by the second.

Inconvenient truth.

And (as usual) it isn't this "bad people do bad things" (because where is the news in this after centuries of human culture actually, then ?) but more like most sheeple in there fucfic-trance watching it happening.

It's not just sheeple - they're only half the problem. It's that bad people build corrupt rigged systems and those systems are infinitely more difficult to avoid - or make fair and just. Those systems are like mecha kaiju, stamping on a human face, forever.

Actual democracy is a process and imho those old Greek mofos - nonetheless - were nearer to it than we will probably ever get to it.

Perhaps. There is still hope for Direct Democracy and other /s/Autonomy solutions.

[–]EddieC 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)