A post about it that’s in the middle of a Bluesky thread - https://subium.com/profile/figgityfigs.bsky.social/post/3kuk2hjgo3k2x
The start of the thread - https://subium.com/profile/figgityfigs.bsky.social/post/3kujzuo6shk26
Baby’s first political thought
“What if people make a bad decision? We should have one really smart guy in charge instead”
Wow fucking groundbreaking who needs the last few thousand years of political thought about the shortcomings of exactly that idea
The odd thing is usually the “Well why don’t we do the correct thing?” dumbasses just go for some sort of technocracy where the experts ™ are in charge.
How do those experts get decided? Listen, that’s for other experts to figure out, I just want shit to work.
The Romans almost pulled it off, for a couple centuries at least. The emperor of Rome would name his adopted son as successor, but usually this “adoption” would take place well into adulthood of the adoptee, and usually after they had displayed their talent and abilities, i.e. like Mao “adopting” Deng or something.
And it only took one emperor to screw it up. Marcus Aurelius - of Gladiator fame and favorite of chud pfps everywhere - named his bio son Commodus as his heir. And kinda like how the movie shows, Commodus was pretty fucked up. From then on emperors often chose their bio kids as successors with the expected results.
