[Unfinished Draft for Essay which will not be published as a Discussion or Main article]
Originally part of the above comment but I’ve decided it fits more as an independent essay. Still in a very rough draft form.
Democratic society: A vista of horror as seen by reactionaries
We want the sum of structural power over nature, the amount of wealth a society has available to be ceteris paribus as high as possible. Isn’t it interesting how Pareto Optimality while being one of the most reliably benign goals is systematically neglected in pursuit of the misfiring heuristics of our mind. The heuristics I speak of are the ones that do not understand institutional power and demand to use the same “social power” mechanism field tested and efficient only on Dunbarian scales for the distribution of resources in the large societies of civilized man. Note how this relates to a currently popular hypothesis on the origin of our intelligence as driven by the parts of the brain that deal with optimizing for social power by bending and breaking explicit rules.
This makes the last sentence of the liberal argument above sound suddenly terrifying.
It is I hope I have shown to me far more terrifying than your virtual Conservative feels it is.
!Unfinished!
tldr: Make it so that institutional power matches the virtues we claim to value rather than the ones our revealed preferences show we value in social power games. The former are mostly more conductive to civilization and the common good.
General Anti-Leftism: People are not equally competent, nor virtuous, nor do they deserve equal social power as compensation for their lack of ability at accruing institutional power (starting positions on such capital tho may best be equalized).
[Unfinished Draft for Essay which will not be published as a Discussion or Main article]
Originally part of the above comment but I’ve decided it fits more as an independent essay. Still in a very rough draft form.
Democratic society: A vista of horror as seen by reactionaries
We want the sum of structural power over nature, the amount of wealth a society has available to be ceteris paribus as high as possible. Isn’t it interesting how Pareto Optimality while being one of the most reliably benign goals is systematically neglected in pursuit of the misfiring heuristics of our mind. The heuristics I speak of are the ones that do not understand institutional power and demand to use the same “social power” mechanism field tested and efficient only on Dunbarian scales for the distribution of resources in the large societies of civilized man. Note how this relates to a currently popular hypothesis on the origin of our intelligence as driven by the parts of the brain that deal with optimizing for social power by bending and breaking explicit rules.
It is I hope I have shown to me far more terrifying than your virtual Conservative feels it is.
!Unfinished!
tldr: Make it so that institutional power matches the virtues we claim to value rather than the ones our revealed preferences show we value in social power games. The former are mostly more conductive to civilization and the common good.
General Anti-Leftism: People are not equally competent, nor virtuous, nor do they deserve equal social power as compensation for their lack of ability at accruing institutional power (starting positions on such capital tho may best be equalized).