Friday, November 26, 2021

The hole in Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" governance, as my comment on Sargon of Assad's video on the subject.

Do watch Sargon's video.


MY BRILLIANT OBSERVATION OF THE PROBLEM:

Technically meritocratic, but one thing people are too PC to point out is that who it really invites. From the book: A "blind paraplegic" can be enlisted to count the hairs on a caterpillar by touch. Totally useless work, yet after two years he or she can vote. Virtually all seriously disabled people will enlist, while a lot of able folks will choose the civilian life. Then the disabled vote themselves and other disabled welfare from the public largesse. Sound familiar? To be totally un-PC, while in a "democracy" only half the people making the decisions are "below average" (as I heard a flaming liberal put it after the 2004 election), in Heinlein's idea, MOST of the people who make the decisions will end up being that.


Sargon's reaction to a bleeding-heart analysis: