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Teleology of Progress & The Dawn of Everything - Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay - DS Pod 291

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Reimagining Government for Human Interests

This chapter discusses the need for government to prioritize human interests and adhere to democratic principles. It emphasizes the potential for reform to counteract the growing influence of non-human entities in governance, framing it as a crucial transformative endeavor for the future.

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think so, in so much as I do believe in the Democratic-Republican dream that the government should serve our human interests and that we should have a government of the people by the people, like human beings, right? And the fundamental crisis of our times that I can see is that our government is increasingly controlled by non-human entities. And that's a problem I think we can solve, personally. I don't think the idea, the anarchist position is particularly useful or viable. I don't think that a society without a state is even really a reasonable possibility. But I do think that we have the ability, I think that, and I think that this, the clock's running out, it's going to get harder and harder and harder, but we do have the ability to create a government that serves human interests. And that's the project that I'm super intrigued about. I feel like that's what all of the guests that I'm piling up to talk to and these economics conversations are all in service of. And I'm not sure there's an economic solution to this. but I do think that aligning our government with our humanity has the potential for a real new beautiful phase of humanity that people will look back on these years and think about us like bloodletting people from the 1800s or something, right?

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