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[Gadersd]

> Well, on a more serious note, corona was the final straw that made me
> lose all hope in democracy as a sustainable long term way of running
> society. Haven't bothered to vote since then, and don't know if I ever
> will.
> 
> When it comes to living life the way I want to live it, I am a proponent
> of the following techniques:
> 
> 1. Voting with your feet (this is the most amount of voting I do). 2. Incorporating yourself. 3. Find good lawyers or read the law book yourself to use the system
> against itself, and to make it work for you.

I’ve never held much faith in democracy or majority consensus. The majority can be wrong and often is. I agree that ultimately the best way to ensure personal autonomy may be to simply move to a territory that better aligns with one’s interests. I hope the variability of laws and governments remains to permit this option. I dread a future in which centralization has the whole of humanity trapped within a singular regime. I am not sure how AI will change the competitive landscape. Some even trust that a centralized super intelligence will ensure humanity’s wellbeing. Heaven or hell, I don't think there is much potential for middle ground in the future.

> On Oct 4, 2023, at 5:40 PM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> True. ;)
> 
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Brent Allsop wrote:
> 
>> And democracy is the first step, but you still suffer from politics.
> 
> Well, on a more serious note, corona was the final straw that made me
> lose all hope in democracy as a sustainable long term way of running
> society. Haven't bothered to vote since then, and don't know if I ever
> will.
> 
> When it comes to living life the way I want to live it, I am a proponent
> of the following techniques:
> 
> 1. Voting with your feet (this is the most amount of voting I do). 2. Incorporating yourself. 3. Find good lawyers or read the law book yourself to use the system
> against itself, and to make it work for you.
> 
> But voting... I think I'm done with that game.
> 
> Best regards, Daniel
> 
> 
>> And of course the solution to that is giving every lost soul at the bottom a voice (no censoring) and building and tracking consensus
>> so things can scale.
>> Once you find enough  people that want the same thing you do, it will just happen.
>> Building and tracking consensus is the only hard part of getting anything done.
>> On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 2:17 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>      Or was it "the last politician strangled with the entrails of the last
>>      politician."? ;)
>> 
>>      Best regards,
>>      Daniel
>> 
>>      On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
>> 
>>      > “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Diderot
>>      >
>>      > bill w
>>      >
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