Graham Priest
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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Yeah, as Lord Acton said, um power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So I think any Buddhist who thinks through a sense of society is going to be strongly against hierarchical power structures to the extent that's entirely uh to the extent that's possible.
What extent is it possible?
Hard question.
think has to be strongly decentralized.
Yeah.
No, this is a very good point.
I mean look, there there are two issues here which we should separate.
The first is, okay, what would your ideal society be like?
And, you know, in truth, we haven't got a clue.
Okay.
That's something we have to maybe do by trial and error.
But the second is, you know, even if we thought we knew what that would be like, how do you get there?
Presumably, you know, it it'll be good to head for some kind of decentralized state.
But then there's the issue you raise about how the fucking hell do you get there.
Now, there's the catch twenty two in anarchism because any transition you make to a different political state is going to occasion a backlash.
You know, that's political science one oh one.
Um, we've seen that in the Soviet Union, we've seen that in the United States, we've seen that you know, whenever there's a change of political economic regime, the people who have power are not gonna sort of sit down and take it easily.
There's gonna be a backlash and often the people in power have control of the military, the police.
That's an awful lot of firepower.
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