Current status: obsessively reading about various schools of #anarchist and #LibertarianSocialist thought.
Is anarcho-pacifist-liberatian-municipalism a thing?
I mean, fuck it. I want to decentralize everything else, why not government? Why not decentralized democracy and the dissolution of the nation state? A confederation of cooperative municipalities (possibly even individual neighbourhoods, is a city is particularly large)?
But, then, I think about how fucking stupid most people are and think: can direct democracy *actually* work on a large scale? Certainly, nothing bigger than a city. But is even that too big in some cases?
@ink_slinger i think its not so much that people are stupid as they are trained not to think critically about things, because thats not usfull for capitalism.
regarding scale, that can be solved buy federating small groups together, if a decision only effects a group they can decide it, if it effects multiple groups they can all come to a position, mandate a delegate with that position, and have all the delegates meet to try and find a result that is acceptable to all groups.
@radicalgraffiti That's a good point. Many people were never taught to think critically. That's probably 1 of the many reasons why current forms of liberal democracy are so alienating. People haven't been given the tools to understand the issues, then can't understand why or how decisions are made (or even think it doesn't matter because issues are made to seem too abstract to impact their lives). Then we wonder why there is growing populist backlash against institutional politics.