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As we ruminate endlessly about the world, we face very few questions. However few they may be speaks not to how easy they are to solve.
How do we make government both big and small? Powerful in enough to secure the interest of the population, but weak or perhaps accountable enough that it doesn’t overuse its powers?
How do we achieve peace? If the truth is that peace lies in the presence of an enemy to distract us?
How do we achieve a post-scarcity world? When scarcity so far has been defined merely by our material needs and not nearly as much as our emotional desires.
Is it the rich causing government collapse, or is it politicians causing government collapse? If your answer is, perhaps they mutually fuel each other, the question—like that of the chicken and the egg— is which came first? The corrupt politician or the greedy billionaire.
Are technical and social competence mutually exclusive?
Does one have to give up power to enhance that of others? Can power as a social force, be generated from nothing—like the physics of energy in that it cannot be created nor destroyed?
These are just a few questions that I leave you with. I hope they plague your mind just as they have mine.