Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Obama Gaslights Non-Stop In Endorsement Video For Biden" video.

  1. Comment part 1 Sheltered as I am, and as much a fool as I allow myself to be on a daily basis: I will now proceed my pouring from the empty into the void by giving a brief outline of how an optimal human government should be arranged. In fact, one objective look at the so-called political systems, and their underpinning, that populate our planet should inform the observer that what is happening is just window dressing on barbarism, it's just a theater of the mind, a velvet glove on an iron fist. I don't know of any system of government or rule that rises above the idiotic, or so it would seem, if the object of the system is to optimize, as much as is possible, all honorable aspects of human existence, and to curtail those commonly deemed as undesirable, the present systems of governance found on earth are archaic trash: just an excuse for the same old kleptocratic autocompulsive psychopaths, to further inflate their already vein-glorious mini-minds in the vacuous reflections of the sycophants that surround and enable their insanity because of their own highly deviated and corrupted survival impulse. They wish they were a real boy, but despite the world of suffering they create by trying to fill their truly vacuous lives with babbles of all types, real life eludes them, and always will. Even ole' Socrates knew that a person that seeks power should never be trusted with it. Human political culture is a joke. An eighth grade class could come up with a better system than the battered whore the banksters and one percent -- have afforded the world. It's a joke, a sin, and a wasted opportunity to evolve our culture into one that would nurture the greatness that humanity could be. But we ain't great, and we never have been, though for sure, an individual here and there, now and then has been -- great that is. Though to tell you the truth Alexander wasn't, and neither was his teacher Aristotle. Two utter failures that the world has adored for over two millennia. So wad ya gonna due -- aye? Real democracy is something usually only found in a direct democracy. Representational Democracy, Republics, Constitutional Republic, etc, are a device used to lead the capite censi to believe that they live in a participatory democracy while allowing the plutocrats to stay in control of the things that matter to them. A few prefectures in Switzerland have a direct democracy, or if you allow, a REAL democracy, but as far as I am aware, they are the only such democracy in the world today and in all of history. Personally I would prefer a sort of democratic neoconfusian techno-meritocracy, wherein people would not vote for candidates, but for the tests and various VR simulated scenarios submitted for consideration by experts in testing of psychological fitness and problem solving abilities that would be appropriate for the office being sought. Tests that would be open to all citizens at all times in order to challenge those who held various government offices, and replace them if they scored higher than the current occupant.
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  2. Comment part 2 However here are some of my thoughts on democracy and how it can work. In observing certain social animals, like ant colonies and bee hives, it is apparent that certain capacities are actualized of which the individual animals themselves are incapable. These are sometimes referred to as emergent functions, some of which are assumed to come about because of the activation of certain epigenetic potentials in the genome given the proper protein to initiate them. This is debatable, however the functions themselves are easily observable. Humans are also capable of emergent functioning -- in a political sense. Here is an example of this in action: We are all familiar with a type of game of chance that one sometimes comes across at a charity event or perhaps a county fair. There will be a large urn or similar vessel and it will contain tens of thousands of jelly beans or marbles or gumballs or something. And typically you make a donation or buy a "chance" and then you make a guess as to how may jelly beans are in the urn. Of course it is impossible to count the jelly beans and it is also very difficult to even make any kind of accurate estimation. So usually thousands of people will make a guess and put it in a box and then the most accurate guess wins a prize, like a car or something. Well as it turns out: the average of all of the guesses is almost always (actually "always", but I am hedging) more accurate than the best guess. . . . Now it is true there is no one obscuring parts of the urn or extolling the virtues of certain sets of numbers or otherwise lying to the guessers with false narratives about the jelly beans or the process of guessing. Of course there is no Donald Trump, or FOx news, or CNN spinning false narratives about the jelly beans or telling you that there is a large grapefruit unseen in the middle of the urn that is displacing patriotic American jelly beans, so it is not exactly the same thing as a democratic vote on legislation or some other political decision. Yet I do believe that this human potential could be brought to bear in a political scenario: if, for instance, something like fines and imprisonment or perhaps huge fines and banishment where the consequence for presenting anything but verifiable facts as evidence in arguing for or against any particular collective democratic decision. And perhaps, just maybe this collective talent could also be mobilized on a level of finer granularity by calling into question the false narratives and other deceptions of the power-elite and their legions of sycophantic wannabes to themselves be objects of observation and study as is now happening via the decentraization of political commentary and criticism made possible by the internet. So, potentially, democracy may still have some very significant tricks up it's venerable sleeve, only this time, tricks for the good instead of the in the service of evil. And perhaps some day we could be supplemented in these quandaries by the kind of advanced AI and machine learning that can beat the champions at GO. A game that seems to me, to be very like our political process. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond.
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