Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen1d ago

I do not exactly label myself an adherent of #anarchism, but I am intellectually curious: I would very much like to know if social harmony might not require Law.

That is what we are taught, as Americans raised and schooled and entertained with conventional American values: society is impossible without Law, without obedience.

I remember to this day having a liberal political science teacher in high school, a fellow I appreciated because he assigned an entertaining variety of texts (including a somewhat goofy 1970s environmentalist tract, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia) who told a story of an animatronic Abraham Lincoln at a Disney park, programmed to tell visitors to obey the law.

Ecotopia - Wikipedia

Show threadRick d Card1d ago
@mxchara Any other better way to have humans live together can't work because it requires a huge majority of people to engaged with it and most people are not willing to do that. That's why we end up with systems that are ruled by a minority who set the parameters within which we must all live.
Show threadJonah Gibberish1d ago
@Rick_d_card @mxchara thats not really true, thats more of the same propaganda the minority use to maintain their control. a very american cultural bias.
Show threadRick d Card10h ago
@jonahgibberish @mxchara I'm ok with you having that belief
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen9h ago
@Rick_d_card @jonahgibberish aren't these soluble problems? society is not static. political issues have been presented to the people in a poisoned manner, through advertising and campaigning in which dirty tricks and deceit are considered normal. reasonable persons avoid engaging with political struggles partly because the currently accepted style in political discourse is intolerably abusive and dishonest. but this can be changed, surely? is it not possible to change the culture of politics?
Show threadRick d Card
@mxchara @jonahgibberish Most people I know are fully aware of the truth and what the problems are. They choose not to get involved. I know this because I speak about stuff like this to people I know so, I am guessing most people are like them based on what they've told me. I have no idea what it would take to move them into action; I'm guessing life would have to get much worse before they have the incentive to begin pressuring politicians for change.
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