Thread:Stray Bird/@comment-28818979-20161217150031/@comment-28209103-20170624184024

Well you can always try to get off the grid if you don't want the hassle of society,, and yes moving to Avalon might be a good thing.. or maybe an oriental castle in mooncell where I certain foxy lady lived will be nice..

It is possible to know different taste without exposure to other belief and culture,, it's called imagination and everyone have it. problem is that most people tend to dismiss fantasy as something trivial and never take it seriously. One thing I learnt from daydreaming is that it let us know anything that can be better than it already is. For example by imagining yourself building an utopia you'll learn a lot of thing in the process.. if you believe that Meritocracy is the ideal system for example, then naturally you can do a backtrack of how to built such ideal meritocracy system,, along the way you'll realize that there's something that are hard to achieve, unrealistic or simply you can't explain along the way. Naturally you're forced to imagine how will you deal or explain with that problem, for example :

[You'll realize that it is hard to determine standard for excellence.. is it educational background? if it's such everyone need to receive same education so that everyone had similar baseline, otherwise it is possible that social class will get in the way of realizing someone merit.. however even then you realize that people expertise better,, therefore it is questionable that uniform education are the answer, therefore you need some magic Sibyl system to determine people talent and then it is better to tailor higher education to suit the person talent and interest. However how about the multitalented? should we allocate him to the place that need him the most? or should we let him pursue whatever he want event tho it's a waste? and so on and so forth.]

This ^ are merely chain of thought by assuming education as the basic requirement of "ideal" meritocracy system. from this single chain of thought we already learnt a lot of thing, that is it is hard to determine excellence, that in your ideal system everyone should be given same chance, that it is hard to grasp person potential and talent, that free will might intervene with the ideal result.

Those problem naturally will need extensive probing and naturally led to some pattern or "science" that we know today, In order to determine excellence we studied about standardization, the need of equality of chance naturally spawn political and economical theory, in this example the ideal are closer to socialist. To understand person potential and talent we develop a psycho-test, and the belief of choice vs obligation will naturally led to social right, law, and other social structure.

Idea, social system, ideal, all of it are born from our imagination. The first person who talk bout democracy didn't find it in the nature but simply imagine how our life can be better than today. I don't mean to brag but it is way too often that I held a paradigm or conclusion that have been written or said by some old philosopher or thinker, but I never even heard or read bout them till college or even till recently. Since we saw the same thing, and imagine the same thing, naturally we'll be faced with same question and reached roughly the same answer; that is how I tried to understand it.