Just one more study bro

You make it sound as if it’s universal. It’s neither universal in human societies nor in other parts of the animal kingdom

Nationalism has become such a no go that nationalists will call themselves patriots but it’s just a euphemism for the first

And ultimately, if the relationship becomes abusive, they won’t just take it.

That’s where the analogy fails for me. You can’t leave a state unless you enter a new state, a new abusive relationship.

People have wanted to improve their living spaces and communities for longer than we’ve had recorded history.

I get when people are proud of their city or ethnicity or dialect group or religion or football club or what ever. There have always been imagined communities (communities where you don’t know everyone but feel connected due to a shared identity) and that’s what modern nation stated exploit. They creat a shared identity by lumping everything together, diminishing local differences to creat an artificial imagined community based on forced commonalities and destroy the plurality and diversity “home” could be.

Thanks for listening to my TEDtalk

The YouTube channel That Dang Dad is a good example that it’s totally possible to wake up

ACAB includes ICE agents

Let the invisible hand lead us all into disaster

but they do get paid to skirt slavery just barely enough.

It’s slavery explicitly banned in US everywhere except in prison?

German has a word for it: Schutzgelderpressung

Pretty sure he’s already on his way back

You posted this 4 hours ago. Any updates?

Council not in the sense that it’s a central committee but a meeting open for every member. And that’s how commons are commonly organized. Community organized by themselves with rules everyone agreed on.

Commons are common all over the world. It’s not a concept of some armchair socialists. It was the armchair guy who came up with the tragedy of the commons and went on to privatize existing and working commons. Empirical scientists went on the study existing commons. The question isn’t can they work, we know empirically they do.

The affor mentioned podcast episode is very informative. Andrewism also has a video about that topic.

I already wrote it in the edit of my first comment: you don’t need a centralized control force once everyone monitors everyone else. When one is cheating (what ever that means), people will notice and bring it up on the council meeting or what ever. Punishment for small transgressions will be small so you doesn’t feel like a snitch or something. Listen to the linked episode in my first comment, the Wrong Boys are fun to listen to!

There is research about when commons work and when they don’t. SRSLY WRONG has a podcast episode about it

Edit: here is the episode. Basically we are more motivated to follow rules when we are included in the process of creating them. Then we also are willing to “police” others so no centralized force is necessary. Also it’s quite a leap to think that the dominant system doesn’t work because of a thought experiment. If it works in practice, it has to work in theory

*pretending to be dead. Now we know the real reason she “died”

“You can’t deny science when you have a radio made by science and see all the electronic”

Turns out, once radios are complex enough, you don’t see the electronic anymore