Inverse Machiavellianism
Inverse Machiavellianism
Originally shared by Meg L
So let me get this straight.....
(Clearest summary I've read so far. No really.)
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Entremet Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "“Like most people in the US, I grew up knowing the words to this carol and even (shudder) singing them occasionally (singing is not a strong point of mine), but never really thought about what they meant, how the carol originated, or what birds were involved”, says Dr Rasmussen in email. So she decided to figure it out. Dr Rasmussen, who’s tied for third for the most bird discoveries in the world, is probably also the world’s foremost avian sleuth, due to her meticulous detective work a few years ago that uncovered the many ornithological thefts and records frauds in museums that were committed by eminent British ornithologist, Richard Meinertzhagen. But who would ever have thought that an old Christmas carol might also hold an avian mystery? “After all, it’s just a Christmas carol!” Dr Rasmussen points out." https://medium.com/@GrrlScientist/meet-the-real-birds-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-fame-grrlscientist-5a8bc09350c9
The problem, thank you, is the bankers.
ReplyDeleteThey insist they're owed billions and billions. Iceland said no, and imprisoned their liars and cheats.
England and America have more corrupt politicians and bankers, though, and America's prisons are already overcrowded with a lot of formerly nonviolent people for someone else's profit.
Eventually, we humans need One System. It must be flexible enough to plummet our geeks and heroes into "outer space" and maintain in honor the cultural traditions of nontechnological peoples as well. We must put aside our ancient bigotries, and function together. None of these current systems are heading toward that, and it pains me.
Yes, well... One System is likely to lead to enforced conformity, which is problematic, is it not?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think that the biggest principles of Love and Justice are that Universal, but most modern Game Theory seems to disagree. Good Behavior apparently doesn't scale as well as Bad Behavior.
"Blackmail, Jeeves?"
ReplyDelete"Or power politics, sir . . . ."
At times, I believe we are blessed that the politicians are so inept. : /
No. One system does not mean conformity. We have the capability and resources to solve certain such as pollution and homelessness and hunger, because we're stuck on the notion of profit and money.
ReplyDeleteIf compassion could be more important, we could address everything in a respectful way (fairness, as opposed to rote legal equality), and still come out with a tremendous abundance for our species.
Hate makes waste.
Well... One System = Monoculture = Requirements of Conformity.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think we could usefully distill and apply Universal Principles and Procedures to governance, but we can't even do that with the much narrower subset of Programming Languages, so...
Governance isn't the issue. Resources are. Humans are.
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