Whatever happens on Tuesday, I think I’m going to be significantly more anarchist in my politics afterwards
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I used to be an institutionalist but then the people in charge of all the institutions broke them
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Anarcho-spaceist. Utopian ideological goal of getting to be a spacefaring species by mildly-leftie-ancap means. Some superposition of Le Guin and Iain M. Banks. Earth as Urras and Mars as Anarres, with the very GSV, named Left Hand of the Compliment, orbiting between them.
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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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
This is my approachhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/520360175715106816 …
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