<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Still, trying to steer towards extropian themes: the way of handling disasters is to (1) avoid them happening, (2) make actions during the event to mitigate damage, and (3) have good recovery options. It might be interesting to analyse the problem of political systems going into headspins this way. anders</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Russia has been dysfunctional for nearly 100 years. Surely they have tried to tweak the system many times, to no avail. Why don't they change? Why don't Cuba and North Korea, seeing as how these countries are in permanent disaster? Is it just that they are ruled by strongmen who control the military?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">There is a time to give up on a theory, political or otherwise. Yet Marxism seems to hang around like a stubborn wart. To quote John:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I don't get it.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">(social psych study: take a quote from Marx: "From each according to his ability and to each according to his needs" and take it on the street and ask people if they agree with it. If you tell them that Marx said it you will get strong disagreement. If you tell it it's by Jefferson, you get strong agreement. Similar results when you give people a copy of the Declaration of Independence and tell them Marx wrote it. Sad several ways.)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Anders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2016-06-04 14:35, spike wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I
can scarcely imagine what it must look like to outsiders who
can only look on with dismay. A country with all those nukes
going into what looks like internal chaos.<u></u><u></u></span>
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Yup. Does not look good. Of course, over in the UK we have the
brexit nonsense to deal with. But that only reveals stupidity in the
ruling class, not active maliciousness. <br>
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Still, trying to steer towards extropian themes: the way of handling
disasters is to (1) avoid them happening, (2) make actions during
the event to mitigate damage, and (3) have good recovery options. It
might be interesting to analyse the problem of political systems
going into headspins this way. <br><span class="">
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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