TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: What? We've had a practically unbroken chain of authoritarian state societies going ...
What? We've had a practically unbroken chain of authoritarian state societies going back like 6,000 years or more. Some of them failed, sure, but always to be consumed by another state, never again to form an anarchic community for any meaningful length of time on a historical scale. If there's a critical mass of scale, we've already blown well past it. It's practically demanded by the sheer scale of work required to maintain society. It's the only way we know how to organize ourselves at scale.
We can develop tech to change our power structures, but for better or for worse, I would not brand the ones we have as failures. They've survived without any real threat to their fundamental structure for thousands of years, only ever seeing one state fall to another. It's incredibly difficult to scale without centralizing, which is why it took thousands of years and the advent of networked computers to just decentralize the money.
We can develop tech to change our power structures, but for better or for worse, I would not brand the ones we have as failures. They've survived without any real threat to their fundamental structure for thousands of years, only ever seeing one state fall to another. It's incredibly difficult to scale without centralizing, which is why it took thousands of years and the advent of networked computers to just decentralize the money.