Re: i have a politics question

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:48:48 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 8/19/24 1:15 PM, kami wrote:

if aliens invaded, which system of politics would a majority of
humans adopt?

 
   Authoritarian warlords.
 
   If aliens 'just visited' ... not so sure ... but
   controlling the socioeconomic confusion, well, it
   would still trend towards, and provide the EXCUSE
   for, authoritarianism.
 
   IMHO authoritarianism is kind of the 'default' social
   system - the Big Kahuna with a big club and big buds
   with clubs. Anything 'better' takes a lot of constant
   WORK and seems subject to a form of entropy that can
   quickly drag us back to the default.
 
   Like many species, humans organize as 'social hierarchical',
   some double-alpha in charge and everyone below gets pecked
   on. Machiavelli revealed that the double-alpha(s) who are
   smart rarely reveal themselves as such - use proxies.
   That both keeps them safer and gives them more room to
   exercise power behind the scenes. See, IQ is useful
   after all - makes us better tyrants !  :-)

likely the warlord template would be implemented. i had read
somewhere that humans became successful because we learned to
cooperate in larger numbers, which meant killing off the
hyper-alpha males.