Comment on How would an anarchist society work?
LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week agoThis rings 100% true for me in regards to anarchism, communism, capitalism, socialism, feudalism… Pretty much any organisational structure that mankind has or will ever conceive.
People are difficult, irrational and unpredictable. Put a whole bunch of people together on a plot of land, multiply that 1 billion times over and you get the unfathomable clusterfuck that is modern civilization. Not even being defeatist about it, just pointing out the factual reality that the perfect society does not and will never exist, far from it. I am aware I’m rambling on and pointing out the obvious here.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
well, at least until aliens invade.
people tend to be remarkable cooperative when faced with an external existential threat.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We got covid, and a lot of countries governments took advantage of it and spread misinformation and active vaccine denial. That’s about as close to an alien invasion as we’re gonna get, and we kinda failed disastrously at it.
I used to think we’d come together over an external threat too. Now I’m not so sure. In fact, we might even get people denying that it’s even happening.
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Counterpoint in the US at least: Covid.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
that wasn’t an external threat. it was an internal one
notastatist@feddit.org 1 week ago
This about the external threat… the uniting against, was always against other humans from near around. Almost against neighbours. There is still a destruction of our planet where we are not united against. And there is even less unitedness for a fight against warmongering countries.