(Footnote for title) 4. Perhaps you've reached the point of no return with regards to politics? You don't believe in any global solution that people propose, you feel like the current systems are stuck in structural attractors that make them unable to ever address their own problems, you sense that the number of people who have what it takes to create meaningful changes are too rare and unheard in the current age of noise, and so in short, you're very pessimistic about the landscape of collective organization.
In the light of this sentiment, I propose the following: if we can't make governments do useful things, how about we fully admit that they're useless and turn them into some type of entertainment contest? Replace governments, mandates, debates and all of those officials circuses with an actual dance show. People dance to garner the most approval from their followers, which also puts them more in the spotlight and more likely to be featured in the news, and then those people "in power" do ... nothing.
The fact that they do nothing whatsoever is actually a massive improvement when you think about it, because doing nothing is still better than making a system worse through regulations that merely react to the current problem, thereby creating new ones. 5 Dancing means that the spectacle of politics is now admitted in plain light, and that we get to see top quality entertainment from rigid, middle-class and middle-aged people trying to move their body around.
And who knows, maybe a few good dancers might rise from the lot and inspire people to revive this declining art? Maybe the Western world would become more embodied and alive as societal decline progresses and starts becoming apparent even to the average person? Who knows. Of course such a thing could never happen, societies are not just rigid in their structures, but also in the people they create. But one can still dream and laugh.
3 See “Anarchy at the end of times” here
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2024-07-22