[ExI] regarding nano-authoritarianism

[William Flynn Wallace]

​Life is good when one is a nano-communist, set on world-wide self
domination.
spike

In theory, communist dictator is an oxymoron.  In true communism everything
belongs to everybody and everybody joins in the decisions.  In psychology
we had a guy who favored raising children with no punishment whatsoever.
He called it 'unconditional positive regard'.  Nobody knows if it works
since, like true communism, it hasn't been tried.  (now you who know more
philosophy than I do can jump all over me)

bill w
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 4:35 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Nobody can say we weren’t warned
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> Aw, I was hoping for an authoritarian approach. :'(
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> That’s the beauty of libertarianism Will.  You can choose authoritarianism
> if you wish, and better yet, you get to be your dictator!  You can be
> harsh, merciful, stern, benevolent, totalitarian, even communist, your
> call, all of it with yourself as your own world-wide nano-empire, or
> world-wide 150 pico-empire you think a couple digits of precision or really
> necessary.  You can require yourself to shout Heil Me.  If you do that
> however, be sure to wear eye protection for the salute.
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> If you choose nano-authoritarianism, you can choose to take from you
> according to your abilities and you give to you according to your needs.
> If you go this auto-commie approach, the abilities and needs always match
> exactly (depending on how you define abilities and needs) because they
> define each other, and it fits perfectly too, since you are free to define
> both for yourself.
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> Hey I like it.  If asked my political persuasion, I will respond that I am
> a nano-communist, dedicated to self-discipline.  Totalitarian branch in my
> case, since I reserve for myself the final unquestionable authority on
> every command I give me.  I may enforce any punishment I wish upon me, and
> I don’t even need a trial, because I already know if I am guilty or
> innocent, being the judge, jury and jailer.
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> The old time theorists were right all along, or were sorta right.
> Nano-communism results in Utopia.  I really like it in here (my head) even
> if I must confess it isn’t a very big place.  I should perhaps call it the
> pico-Utopia (since nano-Utopia is already taken to mean something else) led
> by an autocratic microlomaniac.
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> Life is good when one is a nano-communist, set on world-wide self
> domination.
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> spike
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