We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the
Say you get dictatorship of all-you-value-and-agree-with, but 20y later it turns into something that hates all you are…
Dictatorship’s only useful for correcting ( e.g. for chopping-out all-pervading corruption … I don’t think any “democracy” ever could clean-up Northern Mexico, e.g. ), but it has to be dictatorship that is committed to eradicating dictatorship, strategically, in the long-run, including itself.
The dictatorship/democracy question is actually a specific remapping of another question:
Which is “better”?
consensus-rule
capable chain-of-command
??
The true answer is:
It depends on the situation!!
Got all the time in the world? Consensus’s your answer.
Ship’s sinking, & you need to stop that happening, NOW?? Capable chain-of-command’s your answer.
Will the world’s human-viability situation get SO bad that only benevolent-dictatorship CAN save a remnant of humankind??
Also, “democracy” only allows attacking corruption down to a level that doesn’t threaten the deep corruption: once any “democracy” threatens that deep roots-level corruption, then …
Sorry, no more anti-corruption allowed. …
Only appearances are allowed to change, iow, and that’s a human socio-political law underlying all cultures, East, West, civilian, military, corporate, not-for-profit, religious, atheist/anti-theist, ALL of them.
I read, years ago, that the surest way to get a prison to riot, is to prevent the “blowing off steam” petty-crimes/cheats/underground-economy in it.
Once you prevent the petty-criminality-economy from working, pressure BUILDS, until killing is happening.
Like clockwork.
“Acceptable” civilization/society’s the same way, kinda.
You either accommodate the criminality underlying acceptable-appearances, or it will BREAK your life & your cleaning-up action.
( this principle doesn’t mean that removing corruption isn’t possible, it does mean that there needs to be a spectrum of “OK…not-ok” for people to experiment in/with, in order to … it translates from thoughtshapes into English as “discover their underlying selves/natures”, but I’m not certain that’s a good/complete rendition of it )
Dictatorship seems to be the only possible means of breaking corruption-is-the-underlying-law, but it’d have to be dictatorship of someone who had non-human nature, or more-precisely, who didn’t have the normal human unconscious-ignorance-protecting instinct.
Good luck finding such a someone.
Normal AwakeSoulist/Buddhist monks/nuns aren’t anywhere-near that level, though true Zen-masters are ( that level means having shed/destroyed one’s unconscious-LifeMind’s ignorance-substance identity-crystal … that was the basis for both their ego & their projected mirage-nature SurfaceMind, which no-longer has any existence/basis ).
Human-process is a process, right?
How could a dictatorship be a mundane human dictatorship, & simultaneously keep tracking what humankind actually requires, in order to keep evolving, at pace, while ClimatePunctuation, economic-conditions, ecological-butchery, geopolitics, etc, all keep changing?
You’re categorically looking at something outside of mundane-human, then.
Didn’t miss it at all. Your talking point ignores the reality.
If the issue is succession and we pick the US, you have this potential issue every 4 years on the presidential level. You have the same issue on the house and senate level. You have a worse issue on the supreme Court.
If the leaders change in 4 years, you’re equally screwed as if your dictator changed in 4 years. However a dictator generally is in power for decades or many decades. So really, you’ve shown the opposite. It is better to be in a stable dictatorship because the succession unknown is less often.
You’re missing a point, though:
Succession.
Say you get dictatorship of all-you-value-and-agree-with, but 20y later it turns into something that hates all you are…
Dictatorship’s only useful for correcting ( e.g. for chopping-out all-pervading corruption … I don’t think any “democracy” ever could clean-up Northern Mexico, e.g. ), but it has to be dictatorship that is committed to eradicating dictatorship, strategically, in the long-run, including itself.
The dictatorship/democracy question is actually a specific remapping of another question:
Which is “better”?
??
The true answer is:
It depends on the situation!!
Got all the time in the world? Consensus’s your answer.
Ship’s sinking, & you need to stop that happening, NOW?? Capable chain-of-command’s your answer.
Will the world’s human-viability situation get SO bad that only benevolent-dictatorship CAN save a remnant of humankind??
Also, “democracy” only allows attacking corruption down to a level that doesn’t threaten the deep corruption: once any “democracy” threatens that deep roots-level corruption, then …
Sorry, no more anti-corruption allowed. …
Only appearances are allowed to change, iow, and that’s a human socio-political law underlying all cultures, East, West, civilian, military, corporate, not-for-profit, religious, atheist/anti-theist, ALL of them.
I read, years ago, that the surest way to get a prison to riot, is to prevent the “blowing off steam” petty-crimes/cheats/underground-economy in it.
Once you prevent the petty-criminality-economy from working, pressure BUILDS, until killing is happening.
Like clockwork.
“Acceptable” civilization/society’s the same way, kinda.
You either accommodate the criminality underlying acceptable-appearances, or it will BREAK your life & your cleaning-up action.
( this principle doesn’t mean that removing corruption isn’t possible, it does mean that there needs to be a spectrum of “OK…not-ok” for people to experiment in/with, in order to … it translates from thoughtshapes into English as “discover their underlying selves/natures”, but I’m not certain that’s a good/complete rendition of it )
Dictatorship seems to be the only possible means of breaking corruption-is-the-underlying-law, but it’d have to be dictatorship of someone who had non-human nature, or more-precisely, who didn’t have the normal human unconscious-ignorance-protecting instinct.
Good luck finding such a someone.
Normal AwakeSoulist/Buddhist monks/nuns aren’t anywhere-near that level, though true Zen-masters are ( that level means having shed/destroyed one’s unconscious-LifeMind’s ignorance-substance identity-crystal … that was the basis for both their ego & their projected mirage-nature SurfaceMind, which no-longer has any existence/basis ).
Human-process is a process, right?
How could a dictatorship be a mundane human dictatorship, & simultaneously keep tracking what humankind actually requires, in order to keep evolving, at pace, while ClimatePunctuation, economic-conditions, ecological-butchery, geopolitics, etc, all keep changing?
You’re categorically looking at something outside of mundane-human, then.
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Didn’t miss it at all. Your talking point ignores the reality.
If the issue is succession and we pick the US, you have this potential issue every 4 years on the presidential level. You have the same issue on the house and senate level. You have a worse issue on the supreme Court.
If the leaders change in 4 years, you’re equally screwed as if your dictator changed in 4 years. However a dictator generally is in power for decades or many decades. So really, you’ve shown the opposite. It is better to be in a stable dictatorship because the succession unknown is less often.