Why do they hate Americans ?
Andre Willers .
22 Dec 2010
Synopsis :
Non-Democratic Systems hate Democratic systems .
Why ?
Non-Democratic Systems see Democratic systems as perfidious .
Democratic shifts in interests is seen as betrayals by Non-Democratic systems . Hardwired unfairness memes kick in . Repeated broken promises are seen as belonging to the entire democratic society , instead of just factions .
Americans are just the latest in long series of Democratic systems labeled as treacherous and hated accordingly .
Discussion .
This is an old phenomenon .
Does "Perfidious Albion" ring a bell ?
Old Roman Republic had the same reputation .
Vikings (from whom most modern British institutions derive) had the same reputation for treachery . But , from their viewpoint they were quite law-abiding .
It is just that the laws changed with every Allthing .
1.The Advantage to Democracy :
1.1 Errors can be corrected without too much waste of blood or treasure .
1.2 Flexibility to exploit changes . A human specialty .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Megafauna Extinctions"
2.Symbiosis with Technological change .
Democratic societies cause and flourish with technological change , because they can handle the sociological changes . This is a positive feedback system . As seen for the last 400 years .
Democratic systems became dominant .
The Russian experiment in Communism failed .
The verdict is still out on the Chinese experiment . There is an emerging synthesis , but Democracy in this sense means more than just voting with your feet .
3.Politics:
Present Democratic societies have at least two parties . What Party A promises is frequently reversed by successor Party B , then reversed again when Party A returns to power . And so forth .
This thoroughly confuses non-democratic systems .
The nation gets a reputation for being perfidious . Betrayal is one of the stronger human memes , fuelled by hardwired fairness concepts .
Sigh .
Most humans would rather be consequent than right .
This sums it up in a nut shell for nuts .
Remember , Non-Democratic Systems is shorthand for a small , dominant population group that can bullshit the majority by manipulating the Unfairness mechanism .
4.Fractal Politics .
New modalities of human interaction bypassing the old 150 person boundary (Facebook) means that political parties will proliferate .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Facebook , Friends and disciples" 12 Nov 2010
5.Economic consequences :
General rule of thumb :
Large scale concentrations of economic resources is inversely proportional to the number of political parties .
This means :
Large companies love Emperors .
Fractured political systems means fractured wealth concentrations .
A more effective Democratic system increases the number of alternatives , thereby decreasing the concentration of resources on a single item . Ususally a Good Thing .
Large companies unbound by Reagan-era deregulation will become bound again .
Commercial control of the legislature becomes more fragmented .
The pendulum swings back again .
The Budget Model of allocating resources becomes less relevant as the number of political parties increase . This is independent of regulation .
An emergent self-organization system .
Intriguing reversal to some of the Outpost Models of colonial times as technological differentials increase in the run-up to the Singularity .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Fuehrer Prinzip" 5 Oct 2009
Academia :
The success of the present Western Civilization can be largely ascribed to the Universities , which published knowledge freely and was funded from the public purse .
The commercializing and politicizing of Academia has led to the unfortunate compartementalizing of streams of information .Most fundamental research is now being done by companies or defense establishments , which do not share their findings .
This leads to a hatred of democracies , as they profess one thing and commercially do the exact opposite .
The dreaded intellectual property rights , enforced by the Empire's Military and Economic clout .
See what happened to the Spanish Empire vs England and Dutch in an analogue situation .
Do not give an order that you know will not be obeyed .
Can this survive the fragmentation of authority inherent in the increase in the number of political parties caused by Facebook ?
See effects of WikiLeaks . Assenge is like a modern-day Francis Drake . It is only a matter of time before the emphasis changes from political to commercial .
What does this mean ?
Political systems will adapt , but will be much less monolithic .A phase change in economic-political systems from profit to (profit + green profit) becomes more likely ,
where Green profit is in an extra currency . See previous posts .
See carbon trades .
Compliments of the equinox to all .
Andre.
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