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RE: Hive Post Deleted - I No Longer Support This Blockchain

in #anarchy7 years ago

the problem is always what will happen when there is a crisis. Food shortage, disease, some natural catastrophe or just a highly intelligent psychopath who's also a sociopath.

What always happens when there is a crisis, humans step up, come together, and figure out a way to handle/survive it. Spontaneous order is a wonderful thing, and the creativity & strength of humans, especially in community, who love and care for each other, will always be greater than we believe possible beforehand.

Communities always have to toughen their structures and their culture to sustain internal crisis. But with that always comes the risk of the entrenchment of a administration class. Eventually that happens and then the community goes the same way as always: It turns predatory and wins and grows, or it gets owned and fades away.

You used "always" quite a few times in there, and every place you did so it definitely does not fit. Properly intentional communities, with clear agreements and structures, are extremely resilient and adaptable. It's generally safe to say that if you're using the word "always", you're probably wrong.

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A small likelihood multiplied with time equals always. Think in the long-term. 5+ generations.

In a multiverse sense, yes it does. In reality though, the likelihood of anything will change and can go to zero as the variables involved change.

For example I know a bit about Switzerland, which basically is the role model for how the planet should be organized politically.

I would disagree with this statement at its very core. Switzerland is a nation-state, meaning it is operating on an outdated, inefficient, force & coercion-based system.

Small units of course are very resilient. There is this 150/5000 rule for family/community and if you don't go beyond that, you can have close, functioning social order in the long run.

Exactly. These small communities are the only way to peacefully and effectively organize humans, as that is what we are designed for, and humans need to be emotionally connected to their community in order to function.

A nation-state is a nation-state, and they are all based on force & coercion. Any time there are "taxes", that means someone is being stolen from, and thus not a moral or efficient system.

For most of human history, these monopolistic centers did not exist, and the current trends in culture are all moving back towards the decentralization and communalism that allowed humans to advance to the point that those violent sociopaths even had the possibility of creating monopolies.

In the past years looking at what can and is going on in the world of politics and power, I became very pessimistic about that.

Well there's your problem, you're looking at the monopoly game, and the stories it wants people to hear. None of that has anything to do with actual humanity, current technologies, or the consciousness of 99% of the human race. "Politics" is, by its very nature, simply the doings of a small group who want to control others.