Post #1974402
2026-04-16 12:09 UTC
Establish customs and structures that prevent power. It needs vigilance. There's evidence that before agriculture some humans exhibited "reverse dominance hierarchy," where if someone tried to assert dominance, the group would team up and ostracise, exile, or execute them.
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@agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2026-04-16 14:13
So all I gotta do is be the person delegated to the vigilance task and I'm golden for a takeover
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@Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-16 12:24
Democracy and the separation of power is such a structure that we already have. It works perfectly fine if "the group would team up" and vote people that try to assert dominance out. We're just missing the "customs" that would make people do just that, and the question is how to establish this custom. It was already clear that we need customs that make people not give other people power, the question that I posed was how to start those customs you talk about.