I've always strongly identified as firmly right-wing, but I find myself embracing my inner classical liberal more and more, as I grow in my appreciation of natural law and individual liberty. But "embracing the chaos" creates a vacuum of structure that has to be filled somehow. Authoritarianism naturally fills that vacuum by means of power. I'd much rather be under a right-authoritarian regime than a left-authoritarian regime, but what if avoiding authoritarianism is an option? I'm not sure the bottom-right-hand corner of the political compass can actually exist, because it will always result in a tragedy of the commons, and/or a different kind of authoritarianism (e.g. corporatism). Solving social problems with technology at first seems to lead to technocracy, which is just another kind of authoritarianism that arises out of right-libertarianism. But maybe sufficiently decentralized technologies are a leftist mechanism that moves the center of gravity away from authoritarianism? But of course many past efforts at using technology to fix social problems either collapse into centralization, or have flaws that have to be fixed with social solutions, which only lasts until the ones providing the social capital burn out (cf yesterweb).
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the way to avoid authoritarianism is to reject idolatry. period.
Easier said than done, but yes, that's probably accurate
the state is a symbol
and both the catholic and orthodox allow some idolatry... it's notable that the protestant rejects both
the muslim, also, they have idolatry, they worship words... only the protestants come close to actually realising
Can you explain your definition of idolatry?
Confusing a symbol with the thing itself.
It can also be called a fetish, and Pavlov's bell is an example of making dogs confuse one stimulus with another.
Yes, I to love natural law. The phoneticians have showed us eons ago that governance can come from good honest trade. They spread their wares through out the world and invited people to join them. It is really beautiful.
I really appreciate your contributions to building nostr @hodlbod because we’ve got really different political views but know that to build nostr we need to make it for many different kinds of people and groups to manage their own affairs.