Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by argentinian on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:08PM
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If you make national states illegal, a large national state that arises in another part of the world where they don't follow your preferred rules and allow big states, may conquer the smaller states.
To impose a rule like "no national states" you need a world scale big and powerful organization. And somebody would govern it.
Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by jareklupinski on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:18PM
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> would it be possible to filter sociopaths from politics?
"You are walking along the beach. You see a tortoise laying on its back in the hot sun. You don't help it get up; why is that?"
The problem is that all politicians on a national stage are utter sociopaths, just like the C-level executives of every large corporation. These institutions cannot be managed by people with real emotions and empathy; the scale of their operations make it literally impossible. We simply need to make it illegal for such institutions to exist in the first place, except ephemerally through collective action.
Douglas Adams had it right: anyone that wants to hold an office of power should under no circumstances be elected to such a position.