"Fair" as I use it here is expressed quite well in the cartoon to which I referred, which if you aren't familiar with it can be found in my preferred version here: http://www.cipd.co.uk/community/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/196/CieuSLOVAAAN7Bk.jpg
A lasting benevolent dictatorship is beyond our power to ensure. As I said, we can only do the best we can with what we have right now, and hope that those who come after us will get the message and follow the example. As for the inbetween steps from here to there, I said right at the beginning that I had no idea. The only way I can see to take power from those who have it locked down at the moment involves a lot of bloodshed and suffering, and I am too much of a coward to take responsibility for other people getting hurt and dying.
Theoretically, though, the path we have already followed to this point is one I have written about elsewhere, in which progressively more effective attempts to construct a social system which protects the weak from the strong, the poor from the rich, and so on, are then subverted and nullified by the rich, the strong, etc., under the guise (among other names) of "conservatism." The direction in which we must go is fairly clear, and we are due for another attempt at progress; "conservative" forces have already rolled back a great deal of the social progress made after WW2. I do not see how, under our current form of democracy, these subversions can ever be prevented; maybe they never can be. We must try, though, somehow, at least for the present.
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Date: 2016-08-17 08:43 pm (UTC)A lasting benevolent dictatorship is beyond our power to ensure. As I said, we can only do the best we can with what we have right now, and hope that those who come after us will get the message and follow the example. As for the inbetween steps from here to there, I said right at the beginning that I had no idea. The only way I can see to take power from those who have it locked down at the moment involves a lot of bloodshed and suffering, and I am too much of a coward to take responsibility for other people getting hurt and dying.
Theoretically, though, the path we have already followed to this point is one I have written about elsewhere, in which progressively more effective attempts to construct a social system which protects the weak from the strong, the poor from the rich, and so on, are then subverted and nullified by the rich, the strong, etc., under the guise (among other names) of "conservatism." The direction in which we must go is fairly clear, and we are due for another attempt at progress; "conservative" forces have already rolled back a great deal of the social progress made after WW2. I do not see how, under our current form of democracy, these subversions can ever be prevented; maybe they never can be. We must try, though, somehow, at least for the present.