“Panocracy has a simpler approach: don't have any targets in the first place. With no prominent figures, our panocracy will have no lightning rods for the conspiracy theorist, the brainwashed or the crackpot.” Anyone remember the last political assassination in Switzerland?
Anger in Switzerland apparently spiked with coronavirus & responses but I'm guessing they won't use that excuse for the Trump thing. It woz the Corona wot dun it. Or maybe climate change.
Yes, I believe we're on the same page. Your comment on schools is especially true and extends to higher education and working life in general.
Successful careers are usually built on the go-along-to-get-along model. We all participate in that system to a greater or lesser extent or at some points in our lives. Some of this is necessary in a collection of social beings like humans and we have achieved a lot with it.
Unlike other animals where backing down is the rational course we don't do disagreement or conflict well. Can we unpick the good outcomes of a co-operating society from the bad ones?
Of course a panocracy is rather the opposite of a hierarchy and it's this that I believe will be the greatest obstacle to its acceptance. Most people simply can't think in any terms other than great leaders. You might have thought that the insanities of monarchy and oligarchy would have put them off but we don't seem to learn much from experience!
I have long though that our systems of government are ante-diluvian: they belong to age before mass communication and education/literacy of the masses (although that has morphed into a system of moulding and propagandising in the 21st century). Governance in the middle ages should not be a template for the 21st century - but it is! A top down, don't ask questions, pyramid of power. In fact, this is why schools today are run in the way that they are - to train children to be compliant with a system that renders you powerless; from the age of 4/5 until possibly 21, or beyond, you are inculcated with the idea that you are at the bottom of a power pyramid and you obey to avoid punishment. The idea is reinforced with prizes for the ones who submit willingly and perform required tasks; and extra prizes for those who excel at the regurgitation of approved 'facts'. This creates a population who have been primed to continue their lives in a reward-punishment paradigm, submissive to forces over which they have no control (government).
“Panocracy has a simpler approach: don't have any targets in the first place. With no prominent figures, our panocracy will have no lightning rods for the conspiracy theorist, the brainwashed or the crackpot.” Anyone remember the last political assassination in Switzerland?
You're right, attacks are rare but there are still problems as in https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/attacks-on-swiss-politicians-rare-but-not-unheard-of/83758962
Anger in Switzerland apparently spiked with coronavirus & responses but I'm guessing they won't use that excuse for the Trump thing. It woz the Corona wot dun it. Or maybe climate change.
Thanks for the link. I now know who the Swiss president is - I wasn’t sure they even had a president 😢
Many thanks for the comment.
Yes, I believe we're on the same page. Your comment on schools is especially true and extends to higher education and working life in general.
Successful careers are usually built on the go-along-to-get-along model. We all participate in that system to a greater or lesser extent or at some points in our lives. Some of this is necessary in a collection of social beings like humans and we have achieved a lot with it.
Unlike other animals where backing down is the rational course we don't do disagreement or conflict well. Can we unpick the good outcomes of a co-operating society from the bad ones?
Of course a panocracy is rather the opposite of a hierarchy and it's this that I believe will be the greatest obstacle to its acceptance. Most people simply can't think in any terms other than great leaders. You might have thought that the insanities of monarchy and oligarchy would have put them off but we don't seem to learn much from experience!
I have long though that our systems of government are ante-diluvian: they belong to age before mass communication and education/literacy of the masses (although that has morphed into a system of moulding and propagandising in the 21st century). Governance in the middle ages should not be a template for the 21st century - but it is! A top down, don't ask questions, pyramid of power. In fact, this is why schools today are run in the way that they are - to train children to be compliant with a system that renders you powerless; from the age of 4/5 until possibly 21, or beyond, you are inculcated with the idea that you are at the bottom of a power pyramid and you obey to avoid punishment. The idea is reinforced with prizes for the ones who submit willingly and perform required tasks; and extra prizes for those who excel at the regurgitation of approved 'facts'. This creates a population who have been primed to continue their lives in a reward-punishment paradigm, submissive to forces over which they have no control (government).