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Why Political Organizations Always Drift Off Left: O’Sullivan’s Law, Experienced (falkvinge.net)
4 points by Stevvo on Sept 10, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> organization that takes collective decisions promotes people who like collective decision-making, and turns away people who prefer individual initiatives

Collective decision-making by definition means that the interests of the whole group will be taken into consideration.

"Individualistic" decision-making means the interests of EACH single individual take, or should take precedence. That means either

a) Autocratic decisions by a single Great Leader

b) Conflicting decisions by many individuals.

If those individuals see the light and start agreeing that everybody should have the right to vote on decisions that affect everybody then it becomes collective decision-making already. It becomes democracy.

Think about elections, what are those if not collective decision-making? Is this article trying to say elections are bad?

INDIVDUALS RULE is their suggestion, right? Yeas but which individual? Start a fight let the biggest man with biggest gun decide? Me me me. But in the end like the Outlander movie-franchise suggested: "In the end there can be only one!" -- if you go down the route of individualistic decision making.

The question to address is what are you deciding on? Things that affect everybody, or things that everybody can decide for themselves because those decisions do not affect anybody else.


Any system based on majority votes will always lean towards the left.




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