This article reminds me of the #1 streaming series on Apple TV, Pluribus. I've only watched two episodes so I can't say how it ends but the narrative sets off one middlebrow author against 99% of the planet - all humans except for 12 mysteriously unaffected people have been infected by an alien virus that makes everyone kind, helpful, psychic, and communal, always trying to help one another, always saying "we,", always speaking with one voice. Our heroine is horrified and does everything she can to fight them off and avoid being infected. It might be a metaphor for AI but it's also totally structured around the protection of individual autonomy that Americans think they are fighting to preserve. It's so far exactly what Luke is describing. A phobia of collective identity and actio. But... will there be a rapprochement?
From where I sit socialism is to recognize we are social beings and live in societies. Liberalism is to live and let live responsibly in societies. Unfortunately we have recklessly adopted too many ruthless ideologies that have killed both.
I was hoping to hear Alvin Finkel's take who I know reads Luke's work. Alvin wrote the excellent book Human's the 300,000 Year Struggle For Equality. Would he not say that man's very nature is to need social security. That we naturally share relatively fairly cooperate and collaborate unless coercive forces interfers with that nature. That we have reward systems which have us competing against each other for resources in a manufactured scarcity from hoarding of wealth/power ?
Maybe a USer only kinda question, but what do you think are the differences between Socialist and Communist in modern America (DSA vs. CPUSA). I feel more comfortable calling my political leaning Communist, but not because of the party, because in my heart of hearts, I don't think the bourgeoisie will cede their privileges, no matter how dire the consequences to hoi polloi.
This article reminds me of the #1 streaming series on Apple TV, Pluribus. I've only watched two episodes so I can't say how it ends but the narrative sets off one middlebrow author against 99% of the planet - all humans except for 12 mysteriously unaffected people have been infected by an alien virus that makes everyone kind, helpful, psychic, and communal, always trying to help one another, always saying "we,", always speaking with one voice. Our heroine is horrified and does everything she can to fight them off and avoid being infected. It might be a metaphor for AI but it's also totally structured around the protection of individual autonomy that Americans think they are fighting to preserve. It's so far exactly what Luke is describing. A phobia of collective identity and actio. But... will there be a rapprochement?
From where I sit socialism is to recognize we are social beings and live in societies. Liberalism is to live and let live responsibly in societies. Unfortunately we have recklessly adopted too many ruthless ideologies that have killed both.
Great parable, specially with the Bernstein twist at the end.
I was hoping to hear Alvin Finkel's take who I know reads Luke's work. Alvin wrote the excellent book Human's the 300,000 Year Struggle For Equality. Would he not say that man's very nature is to need social security. That we naturally share relatively fairly cooperate and collaborate unless coercive forces interfers with that nature. That we have reward systems which have us competing against each other for resources in a manufactured scarcity from hoarding of wealth/power ?
Maybe a USer only kinda question, but what do you think are the differences between Socialist and Communist in modern America (DSA vs. CPUSA). I feel more comfortable calling my political leaning Communist, but not because of the party, because in my heart of hearts, I don't think the bourgeoisie will cede their privileges, no matter how dire the consequences to hoi polloi.