The belief it’s impossible I’m afraid, is rooted in reality. Say we nuked Canberra tomorrow with parliament sitting. They’re all gone (praise god 🙏).
What happens the next day? Does everyone...
the problem with all of your points is scale. anarchy only works on biologically legible scale. the human brain has limits on how many distinct people it can work with on a regular basis. the entire point i make is about the fact that you can't maintain fluent cooperation if you scale it up.
to a substantial degree, in all small population groups living together there is some degree of anarchy. there isn't a police station in any of the villages within 10km of where i am. if there is any pressing situation the people have to by necessity deal with it because the small scale precludes the extraction required to create a government enforcement system. which goes back to what i'm saying about how it's about belief.
ultimately who gives a flying fuck about what is going on out there in the world if it doesn't show up in your village anyway?
to a substantial degree, in all small population groups living together there is some degree of anarchy. there isn't a police station in any of the villages within 10km of where i am. if there is any pressing situation the people have to by necessity deal with it because the small scale precludes the extraction required to create a government enforcement system. which goes back to what i'm saying about how it's about belief.
ultimately who gives a flying fuck about what is going on out there in the world if it doesn't show up in your village anyway?
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