Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Waldelfe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Soon we can translate all the GDR jokes and use them for the US.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  will preach to them about Spartan values or something

  Spartans kinda invented separation of branches of power. Not all bad things.

  But since they were a slave-holding polity, where actual citizens of Sparta were the occupiers and the helot population hated them with passion, that didn’t last for too long.

  Also the real world attempt at Spartan values (in philosophy) was the USSR, you can trace the ideas and how it was built architecturally, didn’t work too well. Of the “layers of citizenry” too, their workers turned into poets, their warriors turned into slaves, and their philosophers turned into thieves.

  USA in any case just can’t be that, not in this century.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also the real world attempt at Spartan values (in philosophy) was the USSR

    ???

    You are going to really have to expand on the argument there.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Basically a group of Marxist revolutionaries captured power in a big enough country, and their intention was to build a new society, a new world order, without capitalism as they saw it, and by means they could somehow devise.

      So - I’m too dumb to expand well on this, but see the (formally dead since late 20s) concept of a soviet (a council) in the initial intended system. Citizens would both decide the fate of their polity and be inseparable from a collective, so soviet system is very simple - an atomic unit (a house, a factory line) elects their representative, on the next level (a factory or a street, for example) such representatives elect ones for the next level (a district or a town), and so on. A polity can retract their representative any time, they just need to vote on it. That works for all levels, so if the new representative decides to retract polity’s vote for the level after it, there’s a new vote, and a chain effect is possible of removing the highest representatives.

      This would seem OK and fine for you, but in fact it means that a lower polity can be pressed\intimidated\deceived into doing what I described any time, and so on. Which is why during Stalin’s ascent to unchallenged power he didn’t even break that system, just put a little bit of social pressure more via speeches than via threats.

      So - this mandatory grouping seems to me in idea similar.

      One can see some similarity between Soviet education not system, but rather pipeline, and the age cohorts in Sparta, say, toddlers were “consecrated” or “accepted” into “oktyabryata”, in 12 (if I remember correctly), into “pioneers”, schools and universities and technicums all had that strong grouping in activities, say, schoolchildren were sent in groups by age to mandatory competitions and warlike games (“Zarnitsa”, BTW, actually a good thing, teaches one orientation, coordination of movements of large groups of people, use of radio for communication and detecting communications of others, - all useful), students were sent in large groups to construction sites or harvests to work, etc. There were both rituals and actual mechanisms similar.

      OK, I guess I’m just trying to find something

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I really don’t think that works. Basically any human system of government is going to group people and have hierarchies. Same with mass movements.

        Sparta was basically an aristocratic oligarchy/monarchy. This series of articles is an amazing breakdown of the history of Sparta and the way its government was organized.

        When we talk about “Spartans” we are referring to a very small group of men who held held a form of aristocratic status. Sparta was a slave society - the vast majority of those living in Sparta were helots, slaves, who had little rights or recourse against the Spartans.

        I don’t think there was really anything analogous to a soviet. Society wasn’t really organized around economic production. I don’t think you can really compare the education systems either - Spartans had little internet in creating poets, artists or engineers.

        Really, the goal of the Spartans was to be lazy aristocratic fucks who played soldier while the helots did the work. They were pretty shit at it too. But all about warriors and honor, “return with your shield or on it” at least in theory. Terrorize the helots every once in a while to keep them in line and make your dick feel big.

        The goal of the Soviet project was rapid industrial development to set up the conditions necessary for the abolishment of the state/“true communism.” Stalin was an autocratic fuckwad that quickly gave up on anything resembling values in part because Jews and gays are icky, and steered that project straight into a wall.

        I guess one commonality is the the USSR was one of the first states to legalize same sex intercourse, and the Spartans were all about mansex.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They are fine on their island hideouts on Martha’s Vineyard and gated forts in Florida

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• CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spartan values would be accurate given that it was a slave state with something like 7 to 10 helots per Spartan. And yet 300 has turned King Leonidas into a legendary hero… for defending a slave state. Human perspective is too malleable.

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• FE80@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its looking more and more like the end result is just going to be millions of Americans will have to do without, Live with less.

  Phones are the de facto platform for two factor authentication of everything; I don’t see how society is going to walk backwards to phones being an optional luxury item.

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  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the market will be taken over by cheaper, less “luxury” alternatives.

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