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Let's solve the root problem of all root problems: stupid people are stupid
Let's get to the root causes of the root causes, folks.
Some people are better than other people.
Let's call the better people "smart", and the inferior people "stupid".
Stupid people get hateful when they see smart people going around and doing the things that smart people do.
What do better people do? Smart people create and maintain most of the wealth, smart people win most of the wars, smart people are often better ethically too.
As long as there are nothing but stupid people, nobody is going to notice anybody's stupidity, laziness, impulsiveness, weakness and amorality. Then smart people come along and ruin everything for stupid people.
Different political systems propose ways to deal with the hatred this stirs up in stupid people.
1. Leftism prevents smart people from doing their thing. Leftism punishes people for creating or maintaining wealth, winning wars, and being ethically superior. (Ethically superior? Yes: if your race/culture is the first/only one to ban slavery, the left will accuse you of inventing slavery. Ditto with racism, sexism, bigotry, prudery, genocide, imperialism, fascism, pollution, school shootings and everything else the left claims the West invented.)
2. Fascism/identity politics redirects the hate, reminding stupid people that they also hate other stupid people, which is true because stupid people are so hateful that they have enough hatred for everyone. Plus, stupid people tend to be very easy to hate.
3. Democracy keeps stupid people out of power, by giving power to the smart person who is best at manipulating stupid people. The winners tend to manipulate the stupid people with empty promises, distractions, and low-calorie "lite" versions of leftism and identity politics/fascism. However, no democracy has lasted very long, eventually it always becomes one of the other two systems.
So you can deal with haters by 1. Indulging the hate, 2. redirecting the hate, or 3. Lying to the haters. However, while you can fool stupid people by lying to them, reality can't be fooled.
All of these systems fail because they do not deal with the root problem: the hatred itself, which is spawned when stupid people witness smart people in action.
I propose a fourth political system:
4. Stealth superiority.
In this system, the smart are free to remain smart so long as they stay out of the public attention. Meanwhile the stupid get to take credit for running the world, as long as they don't actually do anything substantial.
Think of how people worship sports heroes, as if playing fetch actually achieves something. Or how rock stars get interviewed about politics as if anyone expects them to know anything. Think of how people still follow the Royal Family. Think Donald Trump, with a deeper deep state to keep him from accidentally bombing "thighland".
Let's take a bunch of charismatic stupid people, give them a bunch of impressive uniforms, get them offices in all the impressive old buildings, get them laboratories with colorful bubbling chemicals, and give them credit every time a peace treaty is signed or a vaccine is invented or an astronaut lands on a planet.
When they have beefs with each other, let them blame each other for all the bad things that happen in the world.
Let our charismatic pseudo-elite have absurd amounts of money and all the showy new toys our secret scientists can invent. Let the stupid masses live vicariously through them.
Let's turn every institution into a constitutional monarchy, only instead of a parliament, you have a smoke-filled backroom filled with shabbily-dressed nerds who everybody assumes must work in accounting or something. All anybody knows is that they take a lot of sick days. And know a lot about private islands.
It would be like Idiocracy, only when something goes wrong, mysterious men in black show up, fix the problem, and then congratulate whoever was officially in charge for saving the day.
Sort of like how US special forces helicopter into a warzone at night, quietly snipe all the bad guys, and then allow the local keystone cops to brag about the epic battle they just won.
Or think of it as Atlas Shrugged only without the genocide-level mass death and the question of whatever happens with the nuclear weapons. Also, more private islands, and less gulches. Like, 100% less gulches.
Some people are better than other people.
Let's call the better people "smart", and the inferior people "stupid".
Stupid people get hateful when they see smart people going around and doing the things that smart people do.
What do better people do? Smart people create and maintain most of the wealth, smart people win most of the wars, smart people are often better ethically too.
As long as there are nothing but stupid people, nobody is going to notice anybody's stupidity, laziness, impulsiveness, weakness and amorality. Then smart people come along and ruin everything for stupid people.
Different political systems propose ways to deal with the hatred this stirs up in stupid people.
1. Leftism prevents smart people from doing their thing. Leftism punishes people for creating or maintaining wealth, winning wars, and being ethically superior. (Ethically superior? Yes: if your race/culture is the first/only one to ban slavery, the left will accuse you of inventing slavery. Ditto with racism, sexism, bigotry, prudery, genocide, imperialism, fascism, pollution, school shootings and everything else the left claims the West invented.)
2. Fascism/identity politics redirects the hate, reminding stupid people that they also hate other stupid people, which is true because stupid people are so hateful that they have enough hatred for everyone. Plus, stupid people tend to be very easy to hate.
3. Democracy keeps stupid people out of power, by giving power to the smart person who is best at manipulating stupid people. The winners tend to manipulate the stupid people with empty promises, distractions, and low-calorie "lite" versions of leftism and identity politics/fascism. However, no democracy has lasted very long, eventually it always becomes one of the other two systems.
So you can deal with haters by 1. Indulging the hate, 2. redirecting the hate, or 3. Lying to the haters. However, while you can fool stupid people by lying to them, reality can't be fooled.
All of these systems fail because they do not deal with the root problem: the hatred itself, which is spawned when stupid people witness smart people in action.
I propose a fourth political system:
4. Stealth superiority.
In this system, the smart are free to remain smart so long as they stay out of the public attention. Meanwhile the stupid get to take credit for running the world, as long as they don't actually do anything substantial.
Think of how people worship sports heroes, as if playing fetch actually achieves something. Or how rock stars get interviewed about politics as if anyone expects them to know anything. Think of how people still follow the Royal Family. Think Donald Trump, with a deeper deep state to keep him from accidentally bombing "thighland".
Let's take a bunch of charismatic stupid people, give them a bunch of impressive uniforms, get them offices in all the impressive old buildings, get them laboratories with colorful bubbling chemicals, and give them credit every time a peace treaty is signed or a vaccine is invented or an astronaut lands on a planet.
When they have beefs with each other, let them blame each other for all the bad things that happen in the world.
Let our charismatic pseudo-elite have absurd amounts of money and all the showy new toys our secret scientists can invent. Let the stupid masses live vicariously through them.
Let's turn every institution into a constitutional monarchy, only instead of a parliament, you have a smoke-filled backroom filled with shabbily-dressed nerds who everybody assumes must work in accounting or something. All anybody knows is that they take a lot of sick days. And know a lot about private islands.
It would be like Idiocracy, only when something goes wrong, mysterious men in black show up, fix the problem, and then congratulate whoever was officially in charge for saving the day.
Sort of like how US special forces helicopter into a warzone at night, quietly snipe all the bad guys, and then allow the local keystone cops to brag about the epic battle they just won.
Or think of it as Atlas Shrugged only without the genocide-level mass death and the question of whatever happens with the nuclear weapons. Also, more private islands, and less gulches. Like, 100% less gulches.
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