Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 11, 2019" video.

  1. I can imagine an alternative that is outside of the usual: capitalism, communism, socialism, anarchism ruts. OK well anarchism may not be a rut, and in a sense it is almost as if an underlying subtle substrate of anarchism may be both present and necessary for the vitality of the other isms, but it seems to me that a purely anarchist state, or region, if you prefer, would be at the mercy of nations that are otherwisely organized. First of all, I mention in the spirit of full disclosure that I find government and it's mechanics boring, and somehow grey and depressing, and consider the people who have a desire to acquire temporal power over the physical existence of others as sick, deeply self-deluded individuals. I think that in general our leaders, in whatever flavor basically suck ass when it comes to administering a government. We are told that governments are the most dangerous entities on earth, not to other governments or other peoples, but to their own people. But of course it is not governments, no matter the formal codification of society in the form of laws and regulations, but the people who enact same, supposedly for the benefit of society, but more realistically in the service of their own organically pragmatic predilections, whether apparent as in the case of libertarians, and various utilitarian movements, or subtle and convoluted and perhaps even unconscious as on the part of various idealists, and utopians. Anyway, enough of this and to the point. I suggest a governing system in which the body of government employees, whether a janitor or the chief executive, is chosen by testing and continual performance review. Sort of a Techno-Neo Confucianism where anyone who is able to score higher on a series of tests that are generated by machine learning logarithms to optimize a governing system that is entirely relative to an established constitution or declaration of stated national goals, such as the optimal health wealth and well-being of all citizens or the earliest possible establishment of an extra-planetary colony that is self-sustaining, or some other orientation or constellation of orientations that is established by and modified by the adult populace with varying degrees of voting powers, which degree would also be determines by a test designed to test the intelligence, knowledge and correlation to reality of their internal conceptions. They would be voting directly only for the goals and general prime directives of the nation and not the leaders or manner in which these goals are pursued except in so far as they have established restrictions on such pursuits, such as environmental regulations and standards of dignity and freedom regarding all individuals. New and future technology will allow earthlings to establish a society that is superior to any that humans themselves are capable of designing the social and physical dynamics and details of. Thusly the human race will expand into the limitless resources of the solar system and beyond, to evolve in concert with our technology to a destiny which is presently beyond the capacity of even the most creative futurist to imagine. In such a system, the tests for positions of higher responsibility would be complex and not limited to written exams, but would include virtual reality scenarios, real world assessment and performance review, as well as extreme depth of psychological testing. I might add that in regard to such "higher" positions it may well be determined and required that it would be necessary for them to experience a mental state of awareness that is beyond the consensus thought-centric and quite mechanical mental processes of humanity, whether by psychedelic agents or some other mode of transcendence. In addendum: democracies do work, I should say "can work", this is illustrated by the fact that if a problem is too complex, such as guessing the number of jellybeans in a huge urn. If enough people guess, say tens of thousands, the median of all the guesses is always more accurate than any single guess. Ok theoretically a single guess can be just as or more accurate than the median of all guesses, but not very friggen often and it is just luck. Now if you have some agency that obscures the urn or finds a means of exaggerating certain qualities or merely using persuasion to misrepresent the number of jelly beans this will obviously fuck things up. This is analogous to the present state of the world with regard to the disinformation and propaganda generated by all manner of sources like Fox News, or any news outside of peer reviewed journals and even then. . . . So of course in this society, as it should be in ours, the penalty for knowingly reporting inaccurate information as fact would be death. No excuses.
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