Beast Article Mostly True, But Misses The Mark

Read your Nature of the Beast. Confess I struggled with it because it feels like your fighting the last war. It’s easy to agree with assessment about election and might go as far saying we’re one “Dred Scott” event from civil war. But, as in the last civil war, while power was redistributed, it was only done so among establishment players and underlying sociocultural problems remained.

Saying “not need to nice to people of Trumpistan…[and] will need to work on our educational and social systems to control and redirect this percentage of the population…[and] socially limit the acceptance of speech or action that leads to fascist manipulation,” sounds like sinking to the opposition’s level to fight not offer a new vision or stratagem.

You also make three hyperbolic claims, saying “we’re out of time…[yet could] activate 25–50% of pop against [foes]…[as] more rational less emotion.” While time is slipping away, there’s still plenty of time for a viable strategy. At any given time only 12–15% of population pays attention to politics. As much as we think people can be predominately rational, fact is they’re not. Vision must be both emotionally and rationally appealing such that everyone unconsciously self-modifies their own behavior.

When you say we could use, “AI to map off non-partisan voting districts[and]…redesign basic elements of government,” you fail to realize that only rule-makers can change the rules of the game in this system. You cannot directly change anything within the system. The only viable course, and the dominate mode of system change throughout the cosmos, is creating a new system to compete and successfully change the environment such that the old system is faced with a choice of adapt or die.

Finally, you say, “We’re on the edge of getting things working.” I’d say we are coming to the realization that the system isn’t working and realizing we need to make it work again. But this road is treacherous, requiring patient, systematic pursuit of a new design capable of garnering widespread trust. To pull toward something desirable not push against what’s undesirable.

Of course, I could be wrong. But, having looked at our situation for decades, know need to choose your battle wisely and husband limited resources. Think Sun Tzu.

Doc Huston