Tela Network

Tela Network has become significantly become more interesting with the introduction of Tela Network AI. Query: Explain the ruling class Answer excerpt: / Short synthesis: In this network, the ruling class is the minority that can organize violence, command courts and legislatures, and coordinate elite interests - whether framed as Mosca's "man of violence," Turchin's ruling elites, or the faction controlling the money supply. The open question in several posts is whether that class still believes in itself enough to rule effectively [#13]. / Full answer: https://tela.network/ai-answers/published/a4bbc82a-8422-4f2f-9ef6-291c6d327cb9/ The AI builds its answers from the published posts written by network users. This answer is already much more interesting than a stock response from a normal AI. Posts are cited and linked. Authors are credited. This, to me, is the good future of AI: Amplified Intelligence

Give the adventurer a good brain, a good education, a supply of genius and an historical opportunity, and he becomes a Napoleon or an Alexander. Give him a great ideal and he becomes a Garibaldi. Give him a chance and he becomes a Mussolini. Give him a job and he becomes a soldier and a general. Ignore him and he becomes the gangster and the outlaw. A believer in final causes might soundly assert that the man of violence was invented by a wise Creator as a sort of catalyzer for human progress. On the other hand, the man of violence is not much more than that. The world that he creates is a pretty wretched affair. Give him the power and he regularly enslaves the rest of men, leaving them only the bare means of subsistence. Quite regularly he stultifies thought into hypocrisy and flattery, and the stimulating lift of organized public spirit he replaces with some form of mob fanaticism. - Arthur Livingston (1938) 'Introduction', in "The Ruling Class" (1896) by Gaetano Mosca, pg. 21

The maxim that there is nothing new under the sun is a very true maxim; that is to say, it covers about half the truth, which is a great deal of truth for a maxim to cover. - Arthur Livingston, (1938) 'Introduction', in "The Ruling Class (Elementi di Scienza Politica)" (1896) by Gaetano Mosca, pg. 8

[Friend]: Liberal democracy needs to stop playing nice. People who openly oppose it or promote ideas that attack its foundations shouldn't be allowed to run. [Me]: No doubt that would be more effective (if "win" = preserve the current system) than what the liberal-democracy-organism is doing now. But I'm not sure it could, even if it wanted to. The ruling class may have lost faith. Can it still mobilize courts, legislatures, and armed men to outlaw and arrest opponents? I say arrest because if you just disqualify a popular candidate, you’ve only kicked them out of your game. That doesn’t stop them—it may just mean switching to a game liberal democracy isn’t good at. Take the US: anti-MAGA elites can’t rally young men to defend their institutions, while MAGA leaders can rally theirs to dismantle them.