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a_perfect_map wrote (edited )

No, you've got it wrong I feel. I mean we agree this place is a total mess. But the many don't have any power, it lies in the hands of the few. This world is a reflection on them, not us.

I feel most people want community, autonomy, identity, family, a place to sleep and eat and feel safe, to have sex and love and be loved, to be useful and a million other human yearnings that in no way involve taking from others. I think there is a messy, contradictory moral system in people that is as low as language. I can't say exactly what but there is a very flawed shared human morality based in biology as well as social norms. I argure that its Civilization is what drives us apart and kills us emotionally. It's civilized hierarchy that allows the sociopathic to gain huge amounts of power and turn us against each other.

This is like what people always say to me when discussing anarchism, they're always like, well, who will be the police and protect us from the violently anti social?

And I have to explain that the power a position like police officer enjoys will either attract sociopaths or corrupt anyone who occupies it. This is true of any hierarchy, it creates real life super villians or is extremely attractive to them. Look to human history for roughly 10 million examples of this.

The only way is no authority. Otherwise- Who watches the watchers?

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