RE: What does a truly decentralized government look like?
What is human nature?
"Human nature is neither inherently good, nor inherently evil. The thought-experiment that I like to use is the blank-room experiment. If a person is born into such a room and locked without provision of significant stimuli, all you get is a blank person. The environment is an important factor.
If humans are quite similar to computers, then the environment is our operating condition / operating system.
And indeed, we are quite similar to computers. Our operating condition creates the human condition.
You can think of cultures as operating systems, beliefs as softwares, behaviours as outputs, and life as what it appears on screen.
We are programmable.
And that's human nature."
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@kevinwong/what-is-human-nature
Accepting your destiny that is being programmed and accepting that you can't change it because it's bound to happen or it's predetermined, it's known as fatalism :) I am a big fan of free will :)
That doesn't necessarily mean predestination (although I subscribe to it). I think the human condition needs to be submerged in an environment that rewards goodness, instead of selfishness etc that we see around the world. I believe in building technologies and environments that promote better forms of free-will (with better choices to be made) :)
Oh I agree. if anything, I am the first to say that technology or Internet changed my life for better. But still, even in Steemit there is jealousy, if we consider it as a negative feeling of course, for example :)
free will is constrained by knowledge, the freedom is limited. it's a very interesting thought experiment that i have conducted on myself a few times, you'd be surprised how limited it really is...
I strongly agree. You might like this essay: https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/resources/files/THE%20REAL%20NATURE%20OF%20POLITICS.pdf
I learned how to be a "pushy people programmer" and was one for several years. I learned that what I said wasn't as important to people as whether they wanted to "be like me." If I looked poorly-dressed, or had acne, or was tired, or didn't smile as much, the same message would be discarded. This indicates that people lack the capacity to assess the message on its own merits, because they never got proper History, Economics, Law, or Philosophy in school. Instead, they are using a crude heuristic measure to decide whether what I had to say was valuable. It's been my experience that so-called anarchists or "mainstream voluntaryists," etc. are not much more intelligent than the average American "Democrat" or "Republican" idiot (both of which oppose democracy and the republic).