Is a system that requires a highly engaged populace to avoid organically devolving into chaos tenable? Seems even more perilous when considering the inevitable influence of hostile entities trying to encourage that decline.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea what to do here. I’m just hoping our current decline is slow enough that I can live out the next 20 years or so peacefully and then off myself while I still have the faculties to do so.
I think it’s tenable, yes. Dealing with destructive people needs to be at its core.
FWIW people said the same thing about democracy, humanism, etc., because one feature of ideology is that it naturalizes core concepts like authority systems.
The more individualist one’s culture, the more difficult it is to imagine a functional anarchy, I think. Trust needs to be a starting place, but some places, like the USA, have a fairly low level of trust, maybe not enough currently to make such a system tenable.
Is a system that requires a highly engaged populace to avoid organically devolving into chaos tenable? Seems even more perilous when considering the inevitable influence of hostile entities trying to encourage that decline.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea what to do here. I’m just hoping our current decline is slow enough that I can live out the next 20 years or so peacefully and then off myself while I still have the faculties to do so.
I think it’s tenable, yes. Dealing with destructive people needs to be at its core.
FWIW people said the same thing about democracy, humanism, etc., because one feature of ideology is that it naturalizes core concepts like authority systems.
The more individualist one’s culture, the more difficult it is to imagine a functional anarchy, I think. Trust needs to be a starting place, but some places, like the USA, have a fairly low level of trust, maybe not enough currently to make such a system tenable.