I love the line about your landlord deciding how many kids you have... so much freedom we have in a capitalist, free market. Nice way of pointing out the illusion of freedom.
I kinda think grandpa might be a dick too often though
Thanks for reading and commenting! My idealistic world would have individual family units that are connected to other family units that make up a nation-state that is led by a patriarch. I do not foresee a one-world government because the patriarch of the world would simply not have enough time for his family if he was ruling the world. Rather, the lead patriarchs of the world would have to learn cooperation and negotiation to do what's best for their nation-state's families.
And yes, Grandpa really can be difficult to deal with at times. But in my idealistic world, authority is an important part of learning to live in community. The only way to avoid the chains of authority is to live on an island alone.
This is a cool take on the experiment, I like how it has different elements from the different governments. The grandfather-king sounds a lot like the philosopher-king from plato's republic, as does the focus on 'good' production practices. The Family focus is definitely NOT plato though, he proposed state-owned children and women (insane from our perspective, and insane in his own time too).
How would this government address ballooning population leading to resource competition? Would there be a 2-child policy or something similar?
Great connection to Plato. I definitely see similarities in some respects, but one missing piece comes from Confucianism "filial-piety". (And the last missing piece is just my own opinion!) I will probably do a follow up comparing/contrasting these.
No state-owned women/children or human breeding farms. But I actually don't foresee population being a problem given that the threat of war was removed from this thought experiment, freeing up manpower to research better ways of increasing food supply and increasing housing potential of land. Idealistic, undoubtedly :) but I like to practice thinking outside of the zero sum game.
Oh this was a fun one. Just to think of all of the ways we would make decisions if they were for the benefit of the next generation!
Is it one family worldwide, i.e. one grandpa
Or each country has a grandpa?
I love the line about your landlord deciding how many kids you have... so much freedom we have in a capitalist, free market. Nice way of pointing out the illusion of freedom.
I kinda think grandpa might be a dick too often though
Thanks for reading and commenting! My idealistic world would have individual family units that are connected to other family units that make up a nation-state that is led by a patriarch. I do not foresee a one-world government because the patriarch of the world would simply not have enough time for his family if he was ruling the world. Rather, the lead patriarchs of the world would have to learn cooperation and negotiation to do what's best for their nation-state's families.
And yes, Grandpa really can be difficult to deal with at times. But in my idealistic world, authority is an important part of learning to live in community. The only way to avoid the chains of authority is to live on an island alone.
This is a cool take on the experiment, I like how it has different elements from the different governments. The grandfather-king sounds a lot like the philosopher-king from plato's republic, as does the focus on 'good' production practices. The Family focus is definitely NOT plato though, he proposed state-owned children and women (insane from our perspective, and insane in his own time too).
How would this government address ballooning population leading to resource competition? Would there be a 2-child policy or something similar?
Great connection to Plato. I definitely see similarities in some respects, but one missing piece comes from Confucianism "filial-piety". (And the last missing piece is just my own opinion!) I will probably do a follow up comparing/contrasting these.
No state-owned women/children or human breeding farms. But I actually don't foresee population being a problem given that the threat of war was removed from this thought experiment, freeing up manpower to research better ways of increasing food supply and increasing housing potential of land. Idealistic, undoubtedly :) but I like to practice thinking outside of the zero sum game.
Such an interesting take on the prompt, really enjoyed reading through this
There's a lot of charm to the idea too, which feels particularly unusual for politics