Judo of Mass Frustration: The Anticorruption Campaign Allegory

This video tells a story about a dictator who runs an anticorruption campaign. The story is intended as an allegory to capture some of the game theory dynamics at play at a population level.

[@quintessenceSL]

Chris Hedges makes a point of the importance of public demonstration is an acknowledgement that you know that I know that you know that there is a problem, which is the gestalt in toppling any regime. It is essentially a loss of faith in the powers that be to be effective, losing the authority to rule.

[@Tayyla007]

What an insightful way of describing the dilemmas that dictators make for themselves as they try to hold on to power. Profuse use of the word delighted was so delightful❤

[@GreatestAudioBooks]

You’re brilliant. Well done.

[@emanalsmadi2196]

This is literally what is happening in Egypt and jordan
I've literally seen that analogy play multiple times there

[@Metapolite]

I really appreciate your ability to frame nuanced scenarios and work backwards from there. Our reactive political climate tends to see malignance and corruption around every corner. But the reality is that most leaders aren't nearly as evil as our projections.

[@yanbibiya]

censorship by silence by punishment. opportunity. the enemy of my enemy is my friend. change from inside

[@ryanallison4000]

In the same vein as C.S. Lewis (and maybe from talks I’ve heard from Tim Keller), it is not the desire for a truly wise and just government that disproves it could ever be. Rather, the desire proves we are made for it and its very existence is in fact true, just not in this world.
I’ve spent most of my life longing for what might be termed “good government,” but I’m starting to wonder if humanity has ever seen it throughout history. The final comforting thought is the desire isn’t wrong; humanity just isn’t capable of a system design that controls its own abusive nature.
This veers away from economics, but what do you think?

[@mkrafts8519]

I watched Tom Cruise's latest "Mission Impossible" film "Dead Reckoning". Without giving spoilers, the plot was about an AI program gaining control of global systems. But there were teams of interest groups each trying to gain control of this golden goose AI.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was the only guy who believed the AI shouldn't exist at all. He said a very interesting quote which gives incredible insight into mob psychology.
He said "its too much power for one man to have". Meaning that, he was of the camp that power should not be localized. It was better to have it dispersed so that the strivings of tribes would balance each other in mediocre status quos.
The interesting point about his quote is he was assuming the world was already in a state of tribal conflict. If for example, one man did have all the power, he would have never known it. In fact, he did NOT know it. But even before someone getting that power he feared, he was mobilizing and causing chaos.
Whats the point?
Ethan Hunt was not mobilized to cause chaos by the fact that one man had all that power and was harming Ethan's life in some way. He was mobilized by the thought of it possibly happening.
So too with the population, its not that one man cannot have all the power, its that the population shall not have the thought of it.
Its their thoughts that ruin them, not hypothetical power nodes. Lets pretend there currently is a dictator that runs the whole world. We are already living in that world and no one knows it.
But lets say "oh, now it makes sense why I'm suffering right now." But the question is... why didn't you have that sense when you thought the world was under tribal conflict? Where's your political receipts showing you showed up to city council and attempted to sway policy but was red taped by elusive power blocs? Where's your receipt where you went on youtube and Facebook trying to change community in this tribal zeitgeist.
Nay, if the only time people mobilize is when they hear about "one man", they are twisted people full of envy. And such people, no good leader can please.

[@andrescamilocastrofraile7288]

amazing

[@richardv.2475]

I'm pretty sure this anticorruption-campaign-trick is in the cookbook of any semi-democratic politician in Latin America. You know, I'm living in Hungary and while I truly hate the "in my country" vibes in casual comments, the force and the efficiency the goverment here goes after low and mid level corruption is almost ridiculous, so this is the case to make an exception.

[@tuckerbugeater]

You can't ignore identity.

[@tuckerbugeater]

Revenge fantasies