A book club is governance.
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No it isn't
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Yes it is
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A book club is a monopoly on violence?
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If you’re the only one to vote against this month’s book, you are forced to read it or suffer exile.
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Sorry you've had bad experiences with book clubs bro
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Counterpoint: Criminals are generally the first to resist tyranny, whether we look at the partisans and resistance fighters in WW2, or the many popular folk heroes like Ned Kelly or Nestor Makhno. And as such maybe the government isn't criminal. It's something worse.
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Counter-counterpoint: who labels the criminals?
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Sure but <whatever the next level is> the Trump government is run by people who are criminals in important ways over and above the basic criminality of governance
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and so was the Obama government. see: killing of innocents and doctors in the middle east, apathy regarding police brutality, etc.
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General Snoke: Crime is good actually
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BE GAY DO CRIMES
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If governance itself is a crime, I invite you to ungoverned shitholes in Africa with no central authority. There you will find many crimes but not the crime of “governance”.
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You’re describing colonialism.
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Helping Liberals realize there has NEVER been a good U.S. Presidency is a big first step.
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All governmental power is nothing more than violence or the threat of violence.
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Homo Sapiens can form direct social connections with about 150 people max. Under that size, an organization doesn't need a hierarchy, or even a leader, to function. Past that size, social order in the organization breaks down, and some system of governance is needed.
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Otherwise we wouldn't be able to effectively cooperate on the massive scales that set us apart from the other species on the planet.
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"I don't actually have anything to back this up, and I'm probably conflating organization with governance, but y'all should totes believe me anyways"
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In the time it took you to make a useless comment, you could have literally looked this up for yourself. This isn't a particularly obscure factoid. (Well, maybe for a history major.
) The concept is known as Dunbar's number.
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From the little bit I've found about Dunbar's Number it only accounts for interpersonal relationships, not the structure of society itself. A society can still have enforceable rules without hierarchy
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Keep reading. This has been seen in anthropology in village and tribe sizes, in business management and statistics, in military unit sizes, psychology, tech with social networking etc. Under that number, groups tend to not require any formal laws or ranks to maintain social order
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Above that level, they need some sort of organizational system to maintain social cohesion. Whether that is a religion, a national state myth, a system of governance, a system of laws, etc. And that almost invariably results in a form of hierarchy.
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