Post AdWRCTrB8SO4BSll5c by w@arachnid.town
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 (DIR) Post #AdWQr59jmDkhUkFLHc by w@arachnid.town
       2024-01-05T02:45:01.969016Z
       
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       Socialists despite concerning themselves with things like human-scale urban planning never concern themselves with human-scale social structures and democratic process.Collectivism at too large of a scale is not that different from neoliberal views on individualism. The closest anarchists get to human-scale society is mutual aid, but that's simply too unscalable in the pseudo-direct democracy they often propose.I guess you could call me a horizontal collectivist in the sense that the ability for humans to feel empathy and compassion without fatigue is impossible to scale society vertically. Let people focus on solving the issues that a horizontal model lets them see in front of them, rather than creating grand overarching issues in their units that are simply too much to feel on a direct level, or be emotionally present for after a while.Loose interconnects between many tiny communities does this. Direct democracy is just a matter of meeting up and speaking to everyone around you about what needs to be done, including if you need help, rather than appealing to a parabureaucratic and ableist/autismist(?) nightmare.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdWRCTrB8SO4BSll5c by w@arachnid.town
       2024-01-05T02:48:53.498515Z
       
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       I think that caring about mutual aid before constructing society to enable it and be willing to help others is putting the cart before the horse.