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**TouccuraLar** · 03-02-2010, 10:04 PM

Social darwinism is social elitism but not necessarily social authoritarianism. I'm better than everyone else and discriminate (intellectually), but all perspectives (even tard) are needed to make our government system resilient. I don't believe that telling people what to do is the answer to a prosperous system.

Even a benevolent dictator sucks, because with advisors he still is not omniscient. Democracy and (truly) free markets (with informed consumers) are omniscient.

I think the way Democracy is set up today we loose so much information on the way up that it only works significantly better than classical Oligarchy in nearly perfect conditions. One might argue that all democracies devolve into oligarchies over time just as all dictatorships do.

And this isn't even touching the fact that not only is the rational voter is a myth, but so is the rational consumer is not as usefull an abstaraction as we once belived. We need something better. Even a system such as Futarchy as proposed by Robin Hanson would probably ouperform Democracy.

03-02-2010, 10:04 PM	#18
TouccuraLar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	Social darwinism is social elitism but not necessarily social authoritarianism. I'm better than everyone else and discriminate (intellectually), but all perspectives (even tard) are needed to make our government system resilient. I don't believe that telling people what to do is the answer to a prosperous system. Even a benevolent dictator sucks, because with advisors he still is not omniscient. Democracy and (truly) free markets (with informed consumers) are omniscient. I think the way Democracy is set up today we loose so much information on the way up that it only works significantly better than classical Oligarchy in nearly perfect conditions. One might argue that all democracies devolve into oligarchies over time just as all dictatorships do. And this isn't even touching the fact that not only is the rational voter is a myth, but so is the rational consumer is not as usefull an abstaraction as we once belived. We need something better. Even a system such as Futarchy as proposed by Robin Hanson would probably ouperform Democracy.
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