It’s not the greater good that is a fallacy. Rather, it’s centralized corrupted entities using the idea of the greater good to trick people into tyranny.
If our systems were transparent and decentralized they would be trustworthy, and then the idea of working toward a greater good would not be a bad thing.
Use the environment as an example. We should ALL (for the greater good) want a clean environment we can share. The problem is that centralized entities are using that idea to force their solutions - from the top down in centralized systems that have been corrupted. The idea of the greater good is being used to implement tyranny - no gas stoves, only electric cars, etc.
This is because we are allowing the solutions to come from the top-down. Any centralized system is corruptible, and our systems are fully corrupted.
But, if we change the direction flow of problem solving using new collective intelligence systems (like they are building at http://SwarmAcademy.ai) and you ask the masses how do we better fix the environment, you get reasonable and rational answers. Ones with super high confidence scores.
By simply changing what direction the solutions come from, you can get wise and reasonable answers from millions of people problem solving together. There is a bunch of criteria needed to make this happen, but it does happen and you can test it and see.
The main criteria needed is trustworthy systems. No one trusts any of our systems at all anymore - the centralized ones anyway. Systems of media, government, food, medicine, academia, police, etc etc have all lost our trust.
We need to build new high trust systems again. Decentralized. Transparent. As a place to go solve problems in groups.
Well, sir, I believe you wrapped up our funny little world quite succinctly with this missive. I, for one, found it very well done. I merely hope that those folks in Upstate New York have the courage to do the only avenue left to them, mass noncompliance. In fact, in my opinion, mass noncompliance seems to be our only affective recourse left to us in many circumstances. Keep writing.
I'm not so sure people are going to fall for the same thing again. This whole article overlooks the constant small wins being made by freedom loving Americans. If it weren't so, we would still be in lockdowns. As usual, the devil has overplayed his withered hand.
One of my favourite memes is from my great friend on Twitter, Skip the Free Rifleman. He may now be "not the free rifleman" or some other such Twitter profile because reasons. The meme shows the face of Lysander Spooner and the text says "What if I didn't sign sh##" which I have modified in typing. Because reasons.
There is no social contract and to speak of it is a lie. It is a lie that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was paid to tell by his freemason paymasters when he first began writing "The Social Contract." It is a foul lie the stench of which Voltaire detected and wrote about. It led to many of the worst abuses and usurpations of the Jacobins of the French Revolution, including many deaths.
The freemasons didn't exactly like how all that turned out, since quite a few of their homes were destroyed in the Napoleonic wars. So they hired their brother freemason Karl Marx to write much worse tracts, jeremiads, and screeds.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." ~ Edmund Burke - a fellow who also had ... issues.
It’s not the greater good that is a fallacy. Rather, it’s centralized corrupted entities using the idea of the greater good to trick people into tyranny.
If our systems were transparent and decentralized they would be trustworthy, and then the idea of working toward a greater good would not be a bad thing.
Use the environment as an example. We should ALL (for the greater good) want a clean environment we can share. The problem is that centralized entities are using that idea to force their solutions - from the top down in centralized systems that have been corrupted. The idea of the greater good is being used to implement tyranny - no gas stoves, only electric cars, etc.
This is because we are allowing the solutions to come from the top-down. Any centralized system is corruptible, and our systems are fully corrupted.
But, if we change the direction flow of problem solving using new collective intelligence systems (like they are building at http://SwarmAcademy.ai) and you ask the masses how do we better fix the environment, you get reasonable and rational answers. Ones with super high confidence scores.
By simply changing what direction the solutions come from, you can get wise and reasonable answers from millions of people problem solving together. There is a bunch of criteria needed to make this happen, but it does happen and you can test it and see.
The main criteria needed is trustworthy systems. No one trusts any of our systems at all anymore - the centralized ones anyway. Systems of media, government, food, medicine, academia, police, etc etc have all lost our trust.
We need to build new high trust systems again. Decentralized. Transparent. As a place to go solve problems in groups.
We can fix everything if we fix our systems.
Well, sir, I believe you wrapped up our funny little world quite succinctly with this missive. I, for one, found it very well done. I merely hope that those folks in Upstate New York have the courage to do the only avenue left to them, mass noncompliance. In fact, in my opinion, mass noncompliance seems to be our only affective recourse left to us in many circumstances. Keep writing.
The social contract and bundle of rights! "The public be damned! I'll have no part of it!" - Hank Reardon Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
If anyone falls for this again they need a mask that says, "I'm a dip sheep".
I'm not so sure people are going to fall for the same thing again. This whole article overlooks the constant small wins being made by freedom loving Americans. If it weren't so, we would still be in lockdowns. As usual, the devil has overplayed his withered hand.
Got it, everyone in the world is stupider than you. What a waist of time it is listening to you complain. I won't do it again.
One of my favourite memes is from my great friend on Twitter, Skip the Free Rifleman. He may now be "not the free rifleman" or some other such Twitter profile because reasons. The meme shows the face of Lysander Spooner and the text says "What if I didn't sign sh##" which I have modified in typing. Because reasons.
There is no social contract and to speak of it is a lie. It is a lie that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was paid to tell by his freemason paymasters when he first began writing "The Social Contract." It is a foul lie the stench of which Voltaire detected and wrote about. It led to many of the worst abuses and usurpations of the Jacobins of the French Revolution, including many deaths.
The freemasons didn't exactly like how all that turned out, since quite a few of their homes were destroyed in the Napoleonic wars. So they hired their brother freemason Karl Marx to write much worse tracts, jeremiads, and screeds.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." ~ Edmund Burke - a fellow who also had ... issues.