Compassion, empathy, seeing yourself in others, this is the critical foundation of anarchy—the necessary premise to even think of a world without rulership. Sociopaths cannot grasp this. And the alt-right is just a coalition of more clearheaded egoists, horrified by altruists. https://twitter.com/nisenohata/status/938971486609580032 …
Hunter gatherer societies do not scale because they are built on a reputation system, i.e. cooperation is based on keeping track of previous interaction. Moving to agriculture required much larger groups, and was probably made possible by aligning shared purposes via religion.
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Right, the success of agriculture and its hierarchical modes of organization is the story of statism. Now we have tools and models to come up with systems of massive coordination that scale.
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Information technologies enable vastly different social forms at vastly different scales than ever before possible.
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