Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

  1. 14:15 I don't think you get it. This is like arguing that we should try to get rid of farms because it it's bad that people need to eat. There is no changing that people will try to abuse any kind of centralized authority, and try to self enrich and concentrate power. It's called the iron law of oligarchy for a reason. It's not the manner of centralization that's the problem, it is the centralization itself that is the problem. Centralized factchecking sounds nice until you actually take reality into account. Just like it would be cool if we got rid of farms so we have more area for people to live and less pollution from the farms... until you remember that people need to eat and that food needs to come from somewhere, and if we're not going to each spend all of our day just making food for ourselves, we need farms. This is the whole problem with Marxism too, which is why it's not surprising for people who believe in one to believe in the other. You cannot just ignore parts of human nature to make your idea work
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  2. Fact checking is supposed to be done by individuals battling in the marketplace of ideas. Instead it has become a cesspool of fallacious thinking. Confirmation bias, appeal to authority, bandwagoning and more
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  3. 4:15 Having a central authority decide what is true? It's not like we've been warned about that one before...
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