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ProtrudedDemand  ·  3840 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Plato's Republic: The Philosopher-Kings and Hubski

I think posts like these are what shows us the true power of the internet.

There have been hundreds of political experiments throughout the years, all of them trying to answer one thing; what is the best way to live?

Every single one of them has failed. None of them were able to devise a perfect way of governing people. The internet gives us the power to try out thousands of these systems at lightning speed. Every website is it's own country trying out and testing it's own political system. With each new system, more flaws are exposed. With every flaw that becomes exposed, there comes a group of people trying to solve it. This has been going on throughout the entire history of mankind except that it has been tremendously slow. The internet speeds up interaction allowing for flaws to be exposed/fixed faster than ever before.

We may never devise a perfect system of ruling, but the internet sure makes it easy to see what works.