How about Anarcho-Feudalism? I mean yes this idea has a bit of a joking element, but also serious. It is something around the lines of people freely joining and leaving hierarchical groups. Yes I know it sounds a bit too much like the corporate marketplace right now, so this needs more work.
How about Anarcho-Feudalism? I mean yes this idea has a bit of a joking element, but also serious. It is something around the lines of people freely joining and leaving hierarchical groups. Yes I know it sounds a bit too much like the corporate marketplace right now, so this needs more work.
But basically what I am saying is a lot of people are political submissives. They like to be led, they like to look up to someone, treat them as an idol really, they want to be in someone's fan club, and won't be happy if they don't get it. This would be obviously a gigantic avenue to abuse power, to oppress and exploit, so the safety belt is having many such relatively small groups and making it easy and frictionless to exit one that got exploitative and join one that did not.
Look, we know such a thing as a desire for power exists, modern democracy is pretty much explicitly built on dealing with this danger. What is less known is that not only political dominants exist, political submissives also exist. Some people really love someone else to have power over them. Because if that person is any decent, then they will also offer responsibility for them. And that can feel safe and reassuring. So we have to figure out how to make this safe and the obvious idea is frictionlessly joining and leaving hierarchical groups.
The reason I called it Anarcho-Feudalism is that modern power is often impersonal, and thus lacks the responsibility element. This is IMHO the true tragedy of the modern world, not power, but impersonal power. I would only ever accept someone having power over me if we dine together once a month, get my point? So they know I am human, not statistic, know about my unique needs, there is a personal bond and so on.
How about Anarcho-Feudalism? I mean yes this idea has a bit of a joking element, but also serious. It is something around the lines of people freely joining and leaving hierarchical groups. Yes I know it sounds a bit too much like the corporate marketplace right now, so this needs more work.
But basically what I am saying is a lot of people are political submissives. They like to be led, they like to look up to someone, treat them as an idol really, they want to be in someone's fan club, and won't be happy if they don't get it. This would be obviously a gigantic avenue to abuse power, to oppress and exploit, so the safety belt is having many such relatively small groups and making it easy and frictionless to exit one that got exploitative and join one that did not.
Look, we know such a thing as a desire for power exists, modern democracy is pretty much explicitly built on dealing with this danger. What is less known is that not only political dominants exist, political submissives also exist. Some people really love someone else to have power over them. Because if that person is any decent, then they will also offer responsibility for them. And that can feel safe and reassuring. So we have to figure out how to make this safe and the obvious idea is frictionlessly joining and leaving hierarchical groups.
The reason I called it Anarcho-Feudalism is that modern power is often impersonal, and thus lacks the responsibility element. This is IMHO the true tragedy of the modern world, not power, but impersonal power. I would only ever accept someone having power over me if we dine together once a month, get my point? So they know I am human, not statistic, know about my unique needs, there is a personal bond and so on.