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How can you feed the starving children when there is no space exploration for them to aspire to grow up to join?
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Gotta have a grand goal at least 4 lifespans past the likely end of your own life, otherwise you’re either a bureaucrat ideologizing organizational forms for their own sake OR you’re looking out for your kids.
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4 generations, ~150y, is just enough time for 90% of organizational models to either die or be transformed beyond recognition, so you can’t get attached to a specific institutional means to get anything done. You can only be work towards a goal that’s meaningful for that long.
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That’s also long enough that any sentiment towards your kin/tribe (children, nephews/nieces, friends’ kids) has to dissolve into your general attitude towards humanity, somewhere between misanthropy to philanthropy. Your great-great-grandchildren will regress to the mean.
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My intuitive take on anarchism (from Le Guin/Banks/Scott... I have no intention of studying the ideological literature) is all-at-once embrace of all other ideologies rather than rejection of all. Neither nihilism nor pluralist syncretism, but just messiness.
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Note I haven’t read the Scott book I linked to in OP, but am familiar with the arguments and have a sense of them through Seeing Like a State, and his recent book, Against the Grain, which I got a few chapters into before abandoning due to agreeing too much to stay interested.
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