I believe everyone deserves free healthcare, I believe everyone deserves housing, I believe we have a duty to provide high quality education for everyone in our society, I believe Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity.
I believe fundamentally that all authority that we have not explicitly consented to is illegitimate to some degree and that current forms of democracy and are an approximation of that freedom and thus the right to privacy and the right to live your life as you see fit are both of paramount importance to keep that approximation from shattering.
The “all authority is illegitimate” might generate some friction with some people who might overwise be an ally. They might stop listening and lose any nuance.
True, but I always clarify that in practice I endorse all kinds of beaucracy, governmental structures and compromises, my point is that I think everyone can understand on some level the philosophical point that we should consider our agency with respect to the structures of control imposed upon us and trained into us since before we were even politically aware even if we recognize they are necessary to solve practical problems in many cases.
Is all authority illegitimate? I wonder about experts in fields and experiential based authority. Like I think we should listen to epidemiologists and immunologists more than farmer Joe who might be a great guy and down to Earth but is not an expert on vaccines. Even in a socialist or communist society, where he is not spouting harmful rhetoric, he still objectively knows less than a doctor in said field.
Same for energy and power plants. I would trust a nuclear physicist or engineer in that field and topic, more than someone who has nothing to do with said field.
That doesn’t mean they then get to be a boss or set up an arbitrary hierarchy but there is objectively some form of authoritative voice there in their field.
Many people take the idea that “everyone is entitled to their opinion” too far, and it turns into “everyone is entitled to their facts”
Humans are feelings driven, so they’re more likely to go with what their friend says than some mean scientist who makes them feel bad. The inability of people to put aside their feelings is part of why we’re in this mess.
I believe everyone deserves free healthcare, I believe everyone deserves housing, I believe we have a duty to provide high quality education for everyone in our society, I believe Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity.
BuT WhO Is gOiNg tO PaY FoR It?!
That’s the perpetual conservative rejoinder and the thing that makes “everyone deserves” ring the Far-Left Anti-America Killed-100 Billion People alarm bells. As soon as you talk about reorganizing the legal private ownership of property to optimize quality of life for the public, the people with the majority of property (and those who control the manufacturers of credit and the administrators in charge of distributing large labor contracts) show their reactionary tendencies.
I believe fundamentally that all authority that we have not explicitly consented to is illegitimate
I mean, that’s fine as a belief. The more pressing concern is your action. As soon as you explicitly resist the orders of the regional authority, you’re faced with the organized violence of the professional police. And then what?
You are, of course, more than welcome to shout your feelings into the void of the Empty Internet or argue with digital agents designed to give you textbook rebuttals or encourage non-confrontational expressions of dissent. But you are strictly prohibited from directly challenging any actual administrative power, because that’s Against The Rules. And violating the rules is Violence. And any act of violence you perpetrate justifies an escalated tier of violence against you, until you relent.
I don’t think it is that hard actually.
I believe everyone deserves free healthcare, I believe everyone deserves housing, I believe we have a duty to provide high quality education for everyone in our society, I believe Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity.
I believe fundamentally that all authority that we have not explicitly consented to is illegitimate to some degree and that current forms of democracy and are an approximation of that freedom and thus the right to privacy and the right to live your life as you see fit are both of paramount importance to keep that approximation from shattering.
The “all authority is illegitimate” might generate some friction with some people who might overwise be an ally. They might stop listening and lose any nuance.
True, but I always clarify that in practice I endorse all kinds of beaucracy, governmental structures and compromises, my point is that I think everyone can understand on some level the philosophical point that we should consider our agency with respect to the structures of control imposed upon us and trained into us since before we were even politically aware even if we recognize they are necessary to solve practical problems in many cases.
Is all authority illegitimate? I wonder about experts in fields and experiential based authority. Like I think we should listen to epidemiologists and immunologists more than farmer Joe who might be a great guy and down to Earth but is not an expert on vaccines. Even in a socialist or communist society, where he is not spouting harmful rhetoric, he still objectively knows less than a doctor in said field.
Same for energy and power plants. I would trust a nuclear physicist or engineer in that field and topic, more than someone who has nothing to do with said field.
That doesn’t mean they then get to be a boss or set up an arbitrary hierarchy but there is objectively some form of authoritative voice there in their field.
Many people take the idea that “everyone is entitled to their opinion” too far, and it turns into “everyone is entitled to their facts”
Humans are feelings driven, so they’re more likely to go with what their friend says than some mean scientist who makes them feel bad. The inability of people to put aside their feelings is part of why we’re in this mess.
BuT WhO Is gOiNg tO PaY FoR It?!
That’s the perpetual conservative rejoinder and the thing that makes “everyone deserves” ring the Far-Left Anti-America Killed-100 Billion People alarm bells. As soon as you talk about reorganizing the legal private ownership of property to optimize quality of life for the public, the people with the majority of property (and those who control the manufacturers of credit and the administrators in charge of distributing large labor contracts) show their reactionary tendencies.
I mean, that’s fine as a belief. The more pressing concern is your action. As soon as you explicitly resist the orders of the regional authority, you’re faced with the organized violence of the professional police. And then what?
You are, of course, more than welcome to shout your feelings into the void of the Empty Internet or argue with digital agents designed to give you textbook rebuttals or encourage non-confrontational expressions of dissent. But you are strictly prohibited from directly challenging any actual administrative power, because that’s Against The Rules. And violating the rules is Violence. And any act of violence you perpetrate justifies an escalated tier of violence against you, until you relent.
Who is gonna tell him? 😐