Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

  1. I like Niall, but claiming that democracy is the best we can do is not only incorrect, but alludes to a state of government that actually exists nowhere on earth. The first and most important thing to understand about democracy is that it capable of harnessing epigenetic suprahuman judgements and decisions that are totally beyond the abilities of any single human, no matter their intelligence or knowledge. Like ants who as individuals have no knowledge of how to build a bridge out of their bodies or choose the path that leads to just discovered food, yet as a group, are able to manifest extraordinary versitility and adaptability that are nowhere to be found in an individual ant. And just as it has been pointed out that the average of the guesses at the solution of a problem whose complexity is beyond the reckoning of the individual guessers, is almost always more accurate than the single most accurate guess. Such as takes place when a very large number of jelly beans are placed in an urn in order to raffle off a car to the closes guess at the exact number of beans in a large urn. The average guess is almost always more accurate than any individual guess. But the urn at a county fair charity auction does not have the likes of Fox News to contend with. That is, it does not have some mechanism of deception at play, like a hidden grapefruit in among the jellybeans, that undermines the ability to make one's best guess. But the extraordinary epigenetic advantages of democracy will never be allowed to have it's day. There is no democracy anywhere. Lots of republics, which give the illusion of a democracy while maintaining the status quo of the power elite, who, as amazingly coincidental as it seems, are exactly the reason everything is a mess in the first place. Any democratic revolution is quickly subsumed by the forces of corruption, as are all the more authoritarian forms of government. I personally am in favor of a kind of Retro-Confucian-Techno-Meritocracy that would assign offices to various candidates based on their abilities to pass a harrowing course of tests and simulated scenarios, as a regularly scheduled government upgrade open to all, and perhaps participated in by all mandatorily, since the last person on earth to whom you should ever invest power over others is someone who seeks it. No matter their rationalizations and lies to themselves or others.
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