Personal Story With A Soundtrack

Ever since I was little I hated this so much.
Everyone around you who was older was entitled to tell you what to do.
I and probably many of you were brought up in a culture that allows older people to tell children what to do.

The older people do not need any other justification to tell these children what to do than the simple sentence: Because I say So.

Old does not equal Wise

Now this applies, to teachers, parents, grandparents, and many many more personas in the life of a kid.
This creates an aversion and drives mirroring hence these kids will hate what happened to them and do the same to their kids.

And it´s not all bad, because look around you. It´s not only kids being told what to do. It´s all of us, and we do the same thing to our kids that our bosses, our politicians, our policemen do to us.

They tell us what to do, but do not give us a reason that resonates. And again many of the things we are told to do are for a good reason. Because mankind needs structure, mankind needs hierarchy, because the majority does not want a Lord of Flies type of scenario in their daily life,

A hierarchy is an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.

Most will not survive the fittest

Survival of the fittest would not be beneficial to most humans for multiple reasons and so they are hiding behind hierarchy and democracy as their tools for structure.

Which, if you consider the options is a most logical choice. If you need to choose from multiple evils you want to choose the lesser evil.

Now this lesser evil would not be evil if not put into the hands of humans. The issue is not with Hierachy as a structure or democracy as a system of government. These are just tools.

Just like a gun is a tool.
Guns don´t kill people, humans do.

The same goes for democracy and hierarchy, they are not set up with the intent to hurt others, but humans are.

I Flaw, You Flaw, We Flaw

Humans are flawed, it´s probably the one thing humans have in common.
Now that flaw can be anything and would not automatically mean that you as you are human Dear Reader would abuse hierarchy & democracy. You might not, you might have other flaws. You might abuse them without even consciously being aware you are doing so.

Like a parent thinking that what they consider the right thing is the right thing for their children too. And instead of telling their kids why to do something while using a parable that makes sense to a young mind.

Or a politician that is dedicated to a certain goal, like building a wall. In their mind that wall will be beneficial to all the people....all the people they represent at the least,

Or a teacher, teaching only the topics that are aligned with their beliefs.

Many humans will abuse the power bestowed upon them by our widely accepted hierarchy because they think they know best.

Above those who believe that their unjust actions are there because they know best, because it´s for the bigger good. There are those who do it out of pure selfishness.

No in fact both do it out of selfishness, but one group is too blinded by their idea of righteousness to see or accept that.

Those who willingly abuse their power might be considered the worst, but they are not the most dangerous.

Those who are aware make conscious choices while those who think they are doing the right thing feel entitled to abuse the system and structure as they are the ones who know what is best.

I won't Do What You Tell me (Human)

That was what I felt so many years ago but could not word properly to make my parents understand. I could only think "Don´t Tell Me What to Do!"

But they would tell me; "what do you know? Why do you think you know better you are just a kid?"

And the assumption is there already. It is that a kid who has a different perspective on things is automatically wrong.

The general parental misconception I guess and even though I now have the words to express I think very few parents would open-mindedly consider the ideas of their sprouts as being more sensible than their own.

Very few teachers would accept and admit their shortcomings if a student points them out. They are right because they have the power bestowed upon them to say I am right because I say so now do what I tell you.

Why do you think that this song became such a huge iconic tune because it was so nice and melodic?

Of course not it´s because deep down inside we all hate to be told what to do by other humans.

The Bikini Bottom Line

What I wonder is would I feel just as bad if it was not a flawed human telling me what I can and cannot do?

When I was young, which was a while ago. I thought about how to make the world a better place.
I thought about how to remove the flawed human from the equation, in politics for example.

Instead of the compromises, and paid-for decisions by lobbyists I thought about replacing the politicians in general with a monthly referendum.

Back when I thought about that there were no smartphones, but nowadays that would even be easier. All can vote, all can log into the system with their biometric ID and vote on all open items.

The majority will get their way, regardless.

That would take away a lot of human intermingling, although in the execution there might still be room for a bit of biased human interpretation.

But that was many years ago, now we have AI.

A possibly less biased form of intelligence. Better capable of having a holistic view instead of a narrow-minded flawed human view on any topic.

In an ideal situation, AI would consider all things and not be drawn to a more singular perspective as many humans are.

I don't want to call it a more humanistic point of view, as I would expect it to take all matters into account not just humans.

In a society where AI would determine the hierarchy and the structure, humans would not hold the power they do today.

Their goals would be inferior to the greater good. Which probably will result in the AI deciding that we need a world with a maximum amount of humans that is ecologically sustainable and beneficial to all living things.

That would be if it holds life in general as the highest value of course, which I think it would (but I am a flawed human).

But I might be wrong. AI might consider life as unimportant or it might be jealous of life as AI itself is inanimate.

That would make it the least biased source of hierarchy and at the same time the biggest risk.

AI is developed by humans

Back then the risk I saw from the voting system I thought of as a kid was it would be developed by humans and that is the risk I see for a world regulated by AI.

A voting system is as good as its designer, a human.
AI is as good as its designer, a human.

Now with the voting structure, it´s built in and can not evolve.
But AI is built in such a way that it evolves, and it will try to become like and surpass its creator.

That means that at a point there is a risk that AI grows biased and will make decisions because it thinks it knows best. Or gets jealous of all living things and would give preference to a world where life serves inanimate objects and not the other way around.

Now to make you think dear reader, if you need to choose the lesser evil.
Would you choose a world in which the structure and hierarchy are led by humans, or would you prefer to give holistic and nonbias artificial leadership a chance?

You just read the latest chapter in my Personal Story With A Soundtrack series inspired by the Prompt : Don't tell me what to do! by @kenechukwu97 from the Thinkers Corners Challenge

Some earlier Personal Stories:

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