Originally Posted by
Theodarzna
So you acknowledge things as being evil, but accept it? Why? I propose purely because you are accustomed to it, sort of like the prisoner locked up his whole life grows accustomed to the walls and bars, or a slave that knows only the cotton field, it is familiar and thus theoretically comfortable.
Someone(s) already have large amounts of power. Through vast state surveillance, a justice system that really only works if your wealthy, and the ability to harass any inconvenient citizen with police harassment we already live under a very powerful State that regularly engages in tyranny to suppress political discourse. We already cannot practically EVER rebel against the status quo, and there are no meaningful means of resistance. That system is already a reality.
You agree but decide to nod and blindly consent anyway because it is the comfortable and familiar thing for you. You are hoping "Well we will have pie in the sky by and by!" with some future democracy or some future liberty, IT WILL NEVER COME. If you want to know the real future, probably look at Singapore or China, that sort of Technocracy is what the real power players want. You know, states that regularly harvest and sell political prisoners organs and make prisoners of their own populations.
Why then populism? Because to me there are few virtues greater than Solidarity. And Solidarity does not exist in a Technocracy.