Whatever happens on Tuesday, I think I’m going to be significantly more anarchist in my politics afterwards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cheers_for_Anarchism …
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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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1322958948492734465 …
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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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Does "don't make things worse" count as a grand goal?
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For the people in next 150-year cohort I mean
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Traditional number is 7 generations.
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I don’t have kids so 4 is good enough for me... and I think most people who are not super genetic-narcissist
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Crush the universe
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