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In a despotism society, legitimacy is a harder problem since the elite needs to see the single despot as a legitimate ruler. In an oligarchy republic, one politician can exploit popular support to overcome other competitors, and in extremes become a despotist. The so-called democracy is basically populist politics normalized in an oligarchy. The legitimacy problem - i.e. how the members of the society accept the political institution, is only a problem within the elites. For the non-elite population, such questions can be easily settled through political manipulation, like Cesar and Hitler. When there is a legitimacy crisis, it's a crisis among the elite. Some of them may utilize popular support to overthrow the institution, but it's a kind of manipulation - not that the population awakens to some more legitimate alternatives.
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... Only groups in which members fall to this kind of manipulation by their leaders can win against groups in which no one is as "foolish". Thus group selection (i.e. gene pool) will have adaption pressure on having some gene member manipulators and others manipulatees. ...

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... Group conversations, online communities, and coffee shop conversations have been great for exchanging ideas, but these forms usually lack organization and structure. ...

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... Ideas exchanged in such forms usually require a significant amount of later work (usually by a single individual) to be [organized into narrative structures](https://www.themind.net/observations/AfHZZXnNQmaVukmQ2I7EAw) that be easily consumed. ...

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The scenario-building hypothesis by Alexender is still not that convincing. ...(472 more characters.)
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... As long as social groups still compete against each other, the political structure of those groups has to serve the function of competition. The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). ...

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**Observation:** An observed empirical fact, indisputable for reasonable people. ...(1015 more characters.)
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... It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. Ideas are bouncing in all directions. ...

... In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...

... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...

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... This part of the population is usually where the manipulation happens (i.e. politics) ...

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... Monopoly is a real issue and problem in the US economy. 2. It is not, however, a major reason for the acceleration of inflation in 2021, nor can a crackdown on monopoly do a lot to bring inflation down. But what does that tell us? ...

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... Yet none of them experienced a crash anywhere near as large as ours. When I share this image people sometimes suggest I'm cherry picking, since other major economies don't look like the ones for the UK, Canada and France here. ...

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... Society needs to produce fewer factories and machine tools and more beer and pairs of pants (or whatever). ...

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Looking at society as a gene pool that compete with other gene pools, the inner structure/stratification/diversity of the gene pool can be better understood and this can probably be done easily with some math model and computer simulation.
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