It’s my teammates who don’t know how to fucking play

(Fucking Pokemon Unite, I hate you so much)

OK, now we’re into something…

It is true that it is problematic for the whole population to intervene even in aspects they do not fully or partially master. It makes more sense for the experts to decide in a democratic way than for the expert to make all the decisions, the former is democratic, maybe limited, but democratic after all; the latter is pure and simple Authoritarianism.

Still, I advocate that the commons have at least a notion, however basic, that the experts are voting. Ignorance and lack of transparency are the points that make the population easily manipulated, because they think “Why pay attention to this supposed expert who tells me nothing or at best gives me a half-baked complicated explanation? I prefer to listen to the flatearther who does not take me for a fool and gives me easy to understand explanations”.

(Goddamn, are we still discussing this? Ok…)

There’s no concise way to explain something complicated to a layperson that doesn’t end with “trust me, I’m the expert”.

… So? At least with the explanation the layperson can decide if he trusts the work of the specialist, not so much on whether or not he knows how to do what he does but on how what he does will affect them. Explaining is taking the specialist’s field to the common ground, not the layperson to the specialist’s field.

Shifting the blame doesn’t make the problem disappear.

I’m not shifting the blame, I’m highlighting what I think is the real crux of the problem, of which I think you would also agree: there are far more ignorant people than wise ones. The point is that I advocate educating the ignorant, while others prefer not to allow the ignorant to do anything on their own or make decisions.

Whether the population is uneducated because of a lack of qualified specialists, or simply due to being incapable of understanding the information.

Why do you assume from the outset that there are people who “simply don’t understand”? In what sense “don’t understand”? Because they don’t want to understand or because they are idiots? And if you say that bullshit that “They don’t understand because they don’t understand!” then I’m going to assume that you are one of those who just “Don’t understand” things. I am sick and tired of such a reductionist response.

You still have uninformed people making decisions.

Ok, and what should be done about it? Leave that ignorant population and let others, supposedly more qualified, decide how they should live? Should we go back to feudalism? Let the king and the nobles decide for the commoners? Fortunately (or unfortunately) it seems that we are heading that way! with the nobles of Sillicon Valley taking control of the Technofeudos of the Internet, and the new totalitarian kings taking control in the United States, Russia, China, Turkey, Venezuela, El Salvador, etc, etc…

We are not going to postpone the vote on the new dam until everyone gets their civil engineering degree.

If the specialist cannot explain to the common population in a concise way the implications of carrying out a project of that size so that they can make a sensible choice in a vote, then the problem lies with the specialist, not the population. Giving that kind of explanation is education.

We empower a hundred specialists.

That is not at all the same as giving absolute authority to a despot. A specialist is not necessarily an authority, just as in most cases authorities are not specialists.

You could say that a doctor has the power over who lives and who dies, but what if the hospital director fires the doctor? Or demands that he give priority to some patients over others? And hospital directors are not necessarily Doctors of Medicine. Sure, ideally, the specialists in a field should be the aurities in that field, but that is an ideal and not a reality. The authority of the Hospital is not the doctor, but the Hospital Director. The authority that decides whether or not to build a dam is not the Engineer, it is the owner of the construction company.

Besides, the fact that we have been giving too much power to individuals for years does not mean that it is the right thing to do! For some reason we are on the verge of a new rebirth of fascism.

altruistic leader with accountability who steps down

That is traditional leadership, and leadership is one thing and authoritarianism is quite another.

A leader does not have to be authoritarian. A leader works best when they delegates functions and distributes power horizontally. The leader is not the one who knows more but the one who is more focused.

In authoritarianism, the despot is “the alpha and the omega”, the top of the pyramid and the highest authority, regardless of the scope. He is the one who has the last word, even if what he says is bullshit. There is no form of authoritarianism that is mild or “altruistic”.

I grant you that the population is easy to manipulate, but that is precisely because of the dependence on authority figures, people trust more in what their “leader” tells them than in their own judgment.

The solution is to educate the population so that it is less prone to manipulation, not to continue doing the same as always.

I partially disagreed in the first and strongly disagreed in the second.

The first can be resolved with education.

The second…

The funny thing is that both points are related in a horrid way:

Let’s say there is a despot who has a doctorate, it doesn’t matter what it is, it could be in quantum physics, which has nothing to do with politics, but it is enough to say that the guy is smart. The despot proposes something based on what you say: that those who are not “properly prepared intellectually” can not vote, this translates into those who do not have a university degree can not vote, as 40% of the population at best. Then this becomes that you have to have a Master’s degree to vote, then a doctorate, then only if you have a doctorate in a specific field, and so on…

On the one hand, we should not limit the exercise of democracy of the population, on the contrary. The population does not know how to read? Teach them, they don’t know arithmetic? Teach them. The vast majority do not have a university degree? Make university access more accessible, in an intelligent transforming way.

On the other hand, don’t give unlimited power to ANYONE. There is no individual being capable of providing a whole society with what it needs, because this individual will act according to his limited vision of the world and this will lead to the misfortune of the groups that escape his worldview. And that is only assuming that the despot really wants to “do what is best for all”, which is not at all the case in reality. The despots from the beginning choose a side (“Us”, the Aryans, etc) and an enemy (“Them”, the Jews, the blacks, the Latinos, the non-Aryan whites, etc), and openly act to harm “them” and only benefit “us”. And this is how genocides and so on happen…

Democracy is always good except if what is put to a vote is whether human beings deserve rights or not. Human rights are unappealable, period.

Authoritarianism, on the other hand, is never good, and anyone who says otherwise is a bootlicker, a privileged class or an authoritarian leader.

Twitter I’ve hated since before Musk owned it, but I’d say Instagram is the one I hate the most, mainly because of how overtly hypocritical, condescending, passive-aggressive and false its culture is. At least Twitter is honest, somehow.

If twitter is the eden for Nazis, Instagram is the eden for Karens.

An insult from eastern Venezuela: “Campamento’e Pipe” (Dick’s Camp).

Ehm… I’m not from USA… But since you ask, yes! He would be the first one!

Billionaires, to the god Quetzalcoatl.

You can do the same in the original console with Homebrew apps.

Pcsx2 is the best it can be nowadays. I remember using it years ago and how difficult it was to configure it, but now it runs like silk even on outdated hardware like my PC, I don’t know what black magic the team behind it did. After the original hardware, pcsx2 it’s the best option to play the Ps2 gems.

Its in my play-list! I may play it next after I finish Psychonauts.

I’m currently playing Psychonauts and Downhill Domination (This game is so cool omg).

Oh the list of all the games is veeeeery looooong, like 70 games, but my current favorite that I couldn’t play in the day are:

• Psychonauts
• Zone of The Enders
• Yakuza
• The Simpsons Hit & Run
• Downhill Domination (this game is Rad as hell!!)

While some that I’m replaying because they are really REALLY good are:

• Devil May Cry 3
• Soul Calibur 3
• Lego Batman
• Sonic Megacollection plus

I was able to revive my old PlayStation 2 thanks to Hacks and Homebrew and I’m replaying several games from my childhood apart from playing several others that I couldn’t at the time, and I’m having a wonderful time.

Simón Bolívar

• No one is taking any serious steps to stop climate change.

• On a relative scale, no one is fighting to change any of this.

Do you mean “no one” in the sense of no politician or rich person? Because if so, then indeed, no one in the ruling class is doing anything about anything; but if you are talking about anyone, that there is not a single person on the face of the earth who is doing something, then I profoundly disagree.

If you are looking for hope in a savior, a messiah who will appear out of nowhere and bring about change on their own, obviously all you will find is disappointment and hopelessness. Hope lies in the people and in popular organization, it lies in joining together with your neighbors, friends and/or family to bring about the change you want to see. Hope lies in supporting those who are already fighting, either by donating to their cause or spreading their message. Hope lies in mutual support and resilience.

Hope is the last thing to be lost because it is the last thing standing fighting, with bloody knuckles, a black eye and a couple of missing teeth, but still smiling in the face of adversity.

That sounds Amazing.