https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization
> and amounts to a blistering critique of central planning and “high modernism,” the idea that officials at the center of a state know better than the people they are governing.
Ah yes, the bigots, the climate change deniers, the NIMBYs, the YE Creationists.
Tell me more about how the People are so wise. Go on...
Decentralization led to contaminated water for swimming and fishing where I grew up. Centralization (EPA) ensured *something* was done about it, and the local neighborhood people tried to stop it.
Until people acting selfishly or plain stupid can be stopped systemically, I can NOT get behind the bulk of government decentralization/ anarchist/ antiplanning efforts.
Near as I can tell, the *bulk* of good living in the US is due to central government limiting rapacious interest groups
@pnathan anarchism is not against planing we are for planing by the people affected by decisions, anarchist typically organise in federations, when organised well they allow everyone to have there say while facilitating organisation over large areas
heres the anarchist federation (uk) constitution and decision making process as an example
@radicalgraffiti @pnathan I used the AFED decision-making section as inspiration for a house constitution! Their members handbook is a really interesting document.