Egregoros

@caekislove @sun i love the fact that aurelius' journal is basically an emperor's diary about "my subjects are so fucking stupid "

marx is idk i haven't read das kapital but some of the stuff he was on about has kind of a point.

@icedquinn @caekislove its cliche to say but there are valid critiques in marxism but its prescriptions are cancer

@sun @caekislove to his credit cybernetics wouldn't exist for another dozen years so there was like no grammar for talking about these problems

@sun @caekislove
> das kapital: 1867
norbert wiener and ashby weren't publishing until 196X, so we wouldn't have the formal frameworks that class corruption is entirely a structural issue for a while.

still the idea that you have to prove your innocence as a rando civilian is... brain damaged and backwards, eh.

@icedquinn @caekislove I don't think you're actually obligated at all to propose solutions if you make a valid criticism. it is nice if you can, but it's not obligatory. I realize he wanted to change things. just saying that people took him and did really wrong and bad stuff with it

@sun @caekislove the irony is stalin/linen personally ensured the USSR wouldn't work. it very much almost did, if it had been just a bit less obsessed with secret police.