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StarChild413 t1_jaagjrs wrote

Reply to comment by XueShiLong in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

And without an infinite regress of people forced into service to others how do you check the corruption of the people in power-behind-the-throne holding the ability to force others into power

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Rofel_Wodring t1_jacw64k wrote

Random selection from the citizenry.

Such an idea is anathema to Enlightenment liberalism. 'But what if we make a homeless bum God-king bluh bluh bluh'.

But look: if you idiots were any good at designing a society then randomly selecting some schlub and getting a philosopher king only slightly less competent than a certified genius should be peanuts. It's been several centuries of Enlightenment liberalism's hegemony and they have only gotten more smug about their lack of ability to uplift society's lowest.

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