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[matrixmann]

One thing everyone needs to be ready for: If you tear down the current system, it means your current state of wealth is going to vanish too. The gadgets, the electronic devices, the oversupply that you use - is tied to the current economic and political system. If you make it go away, these things only keep existing as a remembrance of different times. There are no more of these things getting produced, the food chain needs to be rebuild from the basic local infrastructure.
There are going to be times of shortages and deprivation again over a certain amount of time.

Comments

[gansje.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Yet this presents a huge problem; one of the things that helps keep a political structure in place and get its citizens' support is to improve and maintain the citizens' perceived sense of well-being (not their actual well-being, just their sense of well-being). Consumerism's current hold means perceived sense of well-being is measured with consumption-centered metrics. Thus any revolutionary measures to change systems produce dissatisfaction and may, without totalitarianism, collapse. Evolutionary change works more effectively in terms of civil acceptance, but obviously is too slow and unpredictable a process.

[red-child.livejournal.com]

Destroy the system, but only after you've designed, then formed, a replacement one that fulfills all of your intentions. Once the current system is down put yours in place as deeply and strongly as possible; you'll probably need some powerful military techniques and some good, honest propaganda that ensures people good is at hand in a way that's comforting to their inadequate manners of interpreting things. Wherever your system doesn't provide, pick up the destroyed system's available tactics. Use them, but tactically apply change, keeping your resource expenditures measured and cleverly employed, but keep changing the tactics until they match your intentions, just like the system you built as a replacement for once the destroyed one was down, and eventually end up with a system you want.
People will be far less exposed to suffering, and therein dissatisfaction and a likelihood to fight back, essentially resulting in a superior method for pacifying the population. It might be a favored method for keeping people 'safe and happy', it might be a favored method for depressing the number of violent dissenters you have to kill... but it's an idea that could work out if you know how to go about it.
I think the hardest parts are in destroying the system and in making sure your replacement system doesn't turn corrupt during the phase of trying to transform the old system's tactics that you adopted. They're corrupt, and people being exposed to how much power that gives them might, in turn, become tempted to be corrupt. So, I guess, choose the members of your replacement system wisely.

It sounds like a solution to me. Am I falling short somewhere?