I like your manifesto, in the longer term this seems to be the most sustainable way to organise. Human nature being what it is (our enculturation for most of us, and the psychopathy amongst us) will be the challenges to be dealt with. But we are where we are, and have no option but patiently forge forward.
Decentralisation or localisation are the locus themes around which our attention needs to gravitate as we gradually move forward. It’s a complete change in mindset and reversal of the centralising tendencies we’ve been subject to for over a century.
Thankyou for your thoughtful reflections in this area.
I shudder at the endorsement of States’ Rights in saying, “ In the same way that the States of America are each able to set their own laws according to the wishes of the people of that state and what is best for them, so too must the people of each local community be able to decide as much as possible about what sort of local culture they want to abide by.” States Rights gave us the prolongation of slavery in America, and is now creating total bans on abortion. Christian Nationalists would love to see the development of states governed by a theocracy of their making. I shudder at a future of tribalism. There will alway be the greedy and the power-hungry who will endeavor to put themselves in control of resources and people, and then to expand that control to a wider area by creating their own web of allegiances and bureaucracy. Yes, global civilization as we know it change drastically when fossil fuels run out and consequences of our overuse of the planet come crashing down on our heads, and tribalism may be the next phase of human social evolution, but I don’t see it as a desirable solution to be pursued at present.
I like your manifesto, in the longer term this seems to be the most sustainable way to organise. Human nature being what it is (our enculturation for most of us, and the psychopathy amongst us) will be the challenges to be dealt with. But we are where we are, and have no option but patiently forge forward.
Decentralisation or localisation are the locus themes around which our attention needs to gravitate as we gradually move forward. It’s a complete change in mindset and reversal of the centralising tendencies we’ve been subject to for over a century.
Thankyou for your thoughtful reflections in this area.
I shudder at the endorsement of States’ Rights in saying, “ In the same way that the States of America are each able to set their own laws according to the wishes of the people of that state and what is best for them, so too must the people of each local community be able to decide as much as possible about what sort of local culture they want to abide by.” States Rights gave us the prolongation of slavery in America, and is now creating total bans on abortion. Christian Nationalists would love to see the development of states governed by a theocracy of their making. I shudder at a future of tribalism. There will alway be the greedy and the power-hungry who will endeavor to put themselves in control of resources and people, and then to expand that control to a wider area by creating their own web of allegiances and bureaucracy. Yes, global civilization as we know it change drastically when fossil fuels run out and consequences of our overuse of the planet come crashing down on our heads, and tribalism may be the next phase of human social evolution, but I don’t see it as a desirable solution to be pursued at present.