That according to the article, it is a failure of implementation, not of concept.

Sure, but that can be said of pretty much anything?

Communism works great on paper too, shame no one ever tried it, amirite?

This does seem to be a particularly terrible ‘implementation’ though.

The problem near as I can tell is that people are ignoring the very real needs of the majority to not be miserable, and actively guilting the majority (you’re not allowed to not like these things because that would mean you’re a bad person) and that is winding the spring for an authoritarian backlash which we’ve already seen get very scary.

People care about their emotions, and when pressed will do almost anything to protect them. Including having people March ‘bad people’ off to ovens as long as they can pretend they’re awesome in the process.

Trump gets so much traction for this very reason, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

>Sure, but that can be said of pretty much anything?

No, it can't

>Communism works great on paper too, shame no one ever tried it, amirite?

That's a horrible example.

I largely agree with the rest of the post.

A ‘good idea’ where it is impossible to implement well, but easy to pretend to implement - in terrible ways - is actually a really bad idea.