One difference is our society in the 1950s was a lot more capable and competent than the one we have today. And if the competency we have in society starts checking out, the regime isn't going to be able to enforce its will very well. As it is it's overleveraged in enforcement capability and heavily depends on voluntary compliance.
How are the DMV Americans running the DC bureaucracy going to enforce their will in for example Montana or Wyoming? Will they even want to?
I think the state is betting on automation to handle the lack of competency in its enforcement mixed with voluntary enforcers (Great diversity of competency) but that will at best be a stopgap, since they will overextend eventually.
You're probably right, but it still takes competent people to design and maintain the automation. Part of my job involves automation, and it's a hard task that requires the person doing the automating to have a very deep understanding of the task as well as the limits of the technology that's doing the automating. It's a high-IQ task in a world where our Betters seem hell-bent on lowering the IQ.
I've said it before, but the silver lining in the technocratic oligarchy we live in is that the oligarchs aren't the sort of people to inspire loyalty and are too cheap to buy an approximation of it.
And they're often not smart enough themselves to understand how hard the technical aspects of their technocracy are. They'll talk about something as complicated as (eg.) putting a cold fusion reactor into production the same way they'd talk about an oil change. Which is why they keep getting screwed by offshore engineering projects: they see the dollar signs and hear the promises and don't know enough to know they're being fleeced.
One difference is our society in the 1950s was a lot more capable and competent than the one we have today. And if the competency we have in society starts checking out, the regime isn't going to be able to enforce its will very well. As it is it's overleveraged in enforcement capability and heavily depends on voluntary compliance.
How are the DMV Americans running the DC bureaucracy going to enforce their will in for example Montana or Wyoming? Will they even want to?
I think the state is betting on automation to handle the lack of competency in its enforcement mixed with voluntary enforcers (Great diversity of competency) but that will at best be a stopgap, since they will overextend eventually.
You're probably right, but it still takes competent people to design and maintain the automation. Part of my job involves automation, and it's a hard task that requires the person doing the automating to have a very deep understanding of the task as well as the limits of the technology that's doing the automating. It's a high-IQ task in a world where our Betters seem hell-bent on lowering the IQ.
I've said it before, but the silver lining in the technocratic oligarchy we live in is that the oligarchs aren't the sort of people to inspire loyalty and are too cheap to buy an approximation of it.
And they're often not smart enough themselves to understand how hard the technical aspects of their technocracy are. They'll talk about something as complicated as (eg.) putting a cold fusion reactor into production the same way they'd talk about an oil change. Which is why they keep getting screwed by offshore engineering projects: they see the dollar signs and hear the promises and don't know enough to know they're being fleeced.
That's what I'm counting on