3/ * cities / division of labor is not good in and of itself, but are good for the elites (you need to put 5 million people in one place if you want a 3 star Michellin restaurant ...AND have their secret unlisted number for reservations)
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4/ so basically Robert Heinlein / James C Scott / BAP synthesis: * a human being should be able to build a house / butcher a pig / start a fire * ...because doing so allows him to escape the bugman cities where he is countable and taxable by the elites
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5/ cities are for gay men who brunch, barren women who collect handbags, snivelling policy "wonks" and other castrati retainers bronze age / Heinleinian heroes must forgo specialization and thus economic peak development (no homo economicus here) in order to escape into Zomia
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6/ possible. But have read about cities in other eras; all sound terrible. Thoughts, frens? https://twitter.com/EmperorCoolidge/status/1191710821962932224 …
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7/ theory is still under development (expect completion around Friday 8pm when I'm truly d̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ suffused with peat-based nootropics). Two answers are (a) yes, we need to fall back to1850s tech level, (b) accelerate to self-replicating backpack fabshttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191711526274646019 …
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8/ this is orthogonal to my points, and dragging in a
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9/ but what if marauding gangs, tribes, armies are the good guys?https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1191713748404391936 …
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11/ excellent incisive question here ; I think what I object to is the density more than anything else. Well, density and concomitant division of labor and lack of property rights.https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191717312543547398 …
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Shea Levy @shlevyReplying to @MorlockPPoint 2 militates against legible cities... You say remove all cities. I'm wondering now what an illegible (chaotic?) one would be like. Can you square privacy and independence with density? If it's possible, it almost certainly can't be planned. At best, aimed for.4 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
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12/ Another excellent question. By default I think that division of labor is excellent, and I owe where I am in life to it (I code well, I farm poorly). I object to the result when it's carried to extremes - bugmen who can't cook a burger or fix a tire.https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191718201178103808 …
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A fine point, but again, more @wrathofgnon style thesis than @MorlockP thesis.
Small communities create legibility to others in community; the one GOOD thing about big cities is the anonymity.
I don't want Mrs. Johnson's opinion on my drinking etc.
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