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Evil
POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Sunday, October 29, 2006 14:39
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Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:28 PM
CITIZEN
Quote:I don't see how that's possible. The other seemingly inevitable march of human society is that the units get bigger and bigger: families to tribes, tribes to cities, cities to kingdoms and kingdoms to empires. And as the underlying organization get bigger it is capable of supporting a taller hierarchy. But, if you can think of how to do this, I'd be interested.
Or maybe just limit the size of the powerbase.
RUE- The baboon tribe seems to wrap up game theory with the hormone set approach along with some real-life social engineering: I heard of an anti-gang program near Boston that focused on taking the "enforcers" out of action, because even in a gang there are gangbangers and then there are the others. Once the enforcers were sent off to state prison, things calmed down immediately. So all we have to do is get rid of the irredeemable assholes.
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Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:39 PM
Quote:Perhaps by reducing the number of people each person has direct charge over. I mean ultimately the the US president (for instance) is 'in charge' of everyone in the US. From anyone person you can trace the heirachy up all the way to the president. Maybe decentralising power, coming up with a system the decentralises power while still allowing sharing of resources and man power.
Originally posted by SignyM:
CITIZENQuote:I don't see how that's possible. The other seemingly inevitable march of human society is that the units get bigger and bigger: families to tribes, tribes to cities, cities to kingdoms and kingdoms to empires. And as the underlying organization get bigger it is capable of supporting a taller hierarchy. But, if you can think of how to do this, I'd be interested.
Or maybe just limit the size of the powerbase.
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