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  • yeah im just saying one show does not mean anything.

    Nor have I said so. I was giving an example of how the boomers have valued cops, and how they view them.

    heck andy griffith was more a small town show than a cop show

    Sure, but the underlying effect and message of the show was “hey cops are the good guys, they’ll look out for your family”

    I would say cop vs general emergency responder vs hospital/doctor show ratios are not that different today than back when boomers were the main television audience

    That’s far better argument. Though I’d say it still misses the mark because even modern cop shows are still meant for an older group. Gen Z isn’t watching those shows. The closest is Brooklyn 99, which is closer to pornography than reality, or an attempt at reality. There’s also true crime, but often the value there is morbid curiosity, not “cops are good”.









  • Culture itself is a system maintained by force, in its particular case it’s social force, peer pressure, pressure from family, etc.

    It breeds opposition within itself, which is why it constantly changes.

    And I think you’re wrong in that cultural longer. A good example of this is the values of the boomers. They valued the nuclear family, working hard to get promoted, the police, the american dream, etc. It’s now the complete opposite, the nuclear family is regarded as a joke, people loathe the idea of staying at a job longer than a few years let alone the decades the boomers would do. The police are hated, and the american dream is dead.


  • Only by ensuring that there are numerous power bases with the ability to effectively restrain one-another, and relatively free entry/advancement in each, can a free equilibrium be maintained in a society.

    Agreed. Any system is going to require a strong system of checks and balances. That’s one of the few good ideas the founding fathers had. They gloriously fucked up the implementation obviously. But the core concept is critical.

    Of course, we have quite a few regulations and regulatory bodies nowadays, so the only real question is in the details of it, rather than the general concept. The concept is obviously workable.

    For now we do.



  • Then i think we’re largely in agreement. People should always be free to form small groups to follow their passion.

    Though there is another concern. Co-ops that get larger than (guessing here) around 100 or so employees will start to act in the selfish greedy ways of current corporations. Even an employee owned co-op will eventually try to do everything in their power to make a buck. They’re directly incentivized to do so.

    So aside from the outright regulation from the social democracy, I’ve been toying with the idea of a requirement for a publicly appointed employee(s) that have power over major decisions. They’d probably need to be appointed via sortion, recallable by the public, and their wages independent of wellbeing of the co-op.

    Another concern is the prioritization of common goods, and the actual mechanisms for welfare and social safeguards. Some number of co-ops would need to exist as contractors of the state, providing critical needs paid for by the state.




  • If your state concept is broad enough to entail any organization of a certain size, be my gast in a council republic

    It’s somewhere along the lines of “any organization that handles the administrative work and protection for a given territory”.

    And I don’t think that’s all that broad of a definition, and it includes your world wide net of councils as a state.

    Importantly, you didn’t answer the second question:

    What would prevent centralization of power?