Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Debunking Trump’s lies: Obama’s fave historian Yuval Harari busts MAGA playbook in Ari Melber intv" video.

  1. The emergent meta-functionality of democracy cannot manifest in a culture of lies and spin. Humans, like ants and other social creatures are capable of displaying emergent qualities. That is: as a group they are capable of functionality that is impossible on an individual level. This is not only a factor on the obvious level, such as ants display in finding the most efficient route to a food source or building a bridge of their own bodies to traverse some void that would stymie an individual ant, but it is also a factor when considering the determination of the most correct estimation or conclusion in a political sense, when a society is self-influenced through popular vote, or social pressures. An example of this would be a game of chance that is sometimes come upon at a county fair or other event. There could be a huge urn with an irregular shape (not a simple cylinder or similar) and it is filled with, let us say, jelly beans. You are given the opportunity to buy a "chance" to win a Corvette or if you correctly guess the number of jelly beans. . . . A near impossible problem, that one could only get right by gross estimation combined with dumb luck. With a large enough population of guesses the average of all the guesses will in almost every event be more accurate than the most accurate individual guess.l This could be thought of as the genius potential of democracy. The exception being: that one in a hundred event wherein someone guessed right just by luck. However if within the hundreds of thousands of jellybeans there was a void, such as could be caused by a number of hidden grapefruits or softballs, this emergent function of the an accurate average would no longer manifest, and instead we would get a very inaccurate estimation of the situation from the average. These grapefruits represent dis, or misinformation, or as is the case with political entities, outright lies or spin. And so the genius of the meta-funtionality potential of the democratic process is totally negated by "free speech" without regard to actual facts. Who should be the arbiter of what is factual and what isn't? Physical reality, not eyewitness reports, or any kind of disruptive self-promoting verbal vomit from politicians or political social entities. Even the ancient Greeks knew that the last people on earth that should be trusted with political power are those who actively seek it. It would be very beneficial and profitable if -- politically -- we were to enter an era of competency and merit, wherein everyone is given an equal opportunity to display acumen for positions of power through testing, which would include high pressure simulated scenarios, psychological profiling, general knowledge, and specific expertise. But instead it's politics as usual, Which is kind of sickening, and boring, trite, inept, a magnet for high functioning psychopaths, etc. etc. Makes old Three Stooges flicks look profound in comparison.
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