The main conflict is the inability to maintain constant awareness and involvement in all aspects.
It’s so prevalent, it has been easily weaponized.
People can’t care about everything equally. We have bias and we will act in service of that bias whether we realize it or not. And it is why an egalitarian society cannot last long.
What you care about and what i care about will unavoidably come into a conflict harsh enough or enough times that resentment becomes the only answer.
And that is enough for any few bad actors to steer an unwitting populace into a downward spiral towards decay.
Right now i think it doesn’t matter as much the form of government because people need an incentive to care. Having their needs met means it’s not something to care about and so won’t care about it.
People care when they don’t have their needs met.
The point is getting them to act on it.
Get the people to act and it won’t matter which government exists because there is no government without the people to govern.
Having their needs met means it’s not something to care about and so won’t care about it.
A big part of why the US is struggling so much is people don’t have the time and energy to care because they are too busy working.
Protests and riots also either happen either because A: people have time to do them, or B: people have time to do them because working no longer provides enough money to live off of.
You are right however that misinformation isn’t being countered and that any would be free society would need to work on ways to help people see through such things, and to not allow misinfo to be freely spread the way it is now. It’s another core part of the problems we face now, but it’s made worse by people literally not having the time to get involved in any way with politics, and with news being motivated purely by profits. Writing good articles isn’t profitable anymore, but eye-catching headlines is, regardless of how true they are. If you are concerned about the quality of information today you should also be concerned about news being profit driven.
The main conflict is the inability to maintain constant awareness and involvement in all aspects. It’s so prevalent, it has been easily weaponized.
People can’t care about everything equally. We have bias and we will act in service of that bias whether we realize it or not. And it is why an egalitarian society cannot last long. What you care about and what i care about will unavoidably come into a conflict harsh enough or enough times that resentment becomes the only answer. And that is enough for any few bad actors to steer an unwitting populace into a downward spiral towards decay.
Right now i think it doesn’t matter as much the form of government because people need an incentive to care. Having their needs met means it’s not something to care about and so won’t care about it. People care when they don’t have their needs met. The point is getting them to act on it.
Get the people to act and it won’t matter which government exists because there is no government without the people to govern.
A big part of why the US is struggling so much is people don’t have the time and energy to care because they are too busy working.
Protests and riots also either happen either because A: people have time to do them, or B: people have time to do them because working no longer provides enough money to live off of.
You are right however that misinformation isn’t being countered and that any would be free society would need to work on ways to help people see through such things, and to not allow misinfo to be freely spread the way it is now. It’s another core part of the problems we face now, but it’s made worse by people literally not having the time to get involved in any way with politics, and with news being motivated purely by profits. Writing good articles isn’t profitable anymore, but eye-catching headlines is, regardless of how true they are. If you are concerned about the quality of information today you should also be concerned about news being profit driven.