• flora_explora@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    While I tend to agree somewhat with both of your standpoints, I think maybe the governing in “governing body” is the problem here. While we would need to find some way to reach societal consensus on various levels, isn’t a government with an attached ability to exercise authority over people at odds with anarchist ideals? Even if people would form an autonomous government to govern themselves, the name itself suggests authority over people.

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      7 months ago

      I havent gone super deep in this but what if we refine the concept of government as a way for people to organize the geo local organization.

      Freedom is for individuals and individuals can organize but by organizing you are exercising local control. So the people must have a say in that control before it gets to powerful.

      People respect your freedom to organize for better forest management. No one should stop you from building a home in the open forest but local communities should be connected in a way where people quickly catch on if you start cutting and exporting wood for personal gain.

      With enough peer pressure people can non violently shut such system down and they have the right too. You mostly need enough people aware of whats what. Hence good education, organized trough modern infrastructure

      The mentality ill person (now called a criminal) can only comely, if they resort to harming others directly they wave their right to not be stopped/overpowered by others temporarily.

      The government in this case would be the digital network itself wich allows fair decentralzed shading of opinions and public oversight. Everyone together governing themselves.