• @unfreeradical
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    11 year ago

    Do you know what those “organizational bodies at a scale above the level of the community” are called? They’re called governments. i.e. the State.

    No, a regional or even international body is not necessarily a government in the sense of your objection, as a state power that asserts authority through coercion.

    I am sorry, but you are conflating various distinct concepts as one. You have not adequately understood the ideas against which you are asserting strong objections.

    • chaogomu
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      01 year ago

      And you’ve not actually put forward anything different beyond “organizational bodies at a scale above the level of the community”, which is a government.

      Yes, these bodies will have the power of coercion, because that’s how you get shit done at scale.

      Imagine a farm or factory is dumping chemicals into a watershed. There are very few options for stopping that shit without some sort of coercion, and I prefer my coercion to not be in the form of mob justice, which requires a functional government.

      But that’s just me. Why don’t you enlighten me on how the above scenario would work in your dream of a stateless society.

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        Why don’t you enlighten me on how the above scenario would work in your dream of a stateless society.

        Stateless society is not a dream, but rather an objective, or an ideal toward which to struggle.

        If you want to understand how it might be structured, then I encourage you to investigate and to discover.

        At the moment, however, you are engaged in shifting of the burden of proof.

        You have also entered into several instances of a false dichotomy, including through your insinuation that all societies are either disordered, or must be kept orderly by a coercive authority.

        I feel you are more likely to benefit from explanation of certain ideas if you are not encumbered by such kinds of fallacious reasoning.

        • chaogomu
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          01 year ago

          So you have no clue how a stateless society would actually function. Thank you for clearing that up.

          • @unfreeradical
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            There is not only a single way a stateless society may function, just as there is not only a single way a state may function.

            A member of a hunter-gatherer group might lack knowledge of states, but they still occur, in all their variations.

            The topic of stateless society is obviously large, just like the topic of states, or any other topic in politics. It is not suitable to be expounded in a discussion thread.

            Again, if you genuinely are interested, then I encourage you to seek resources from which you might gain meaningful understanding.

            Meanwhile, please stop whining that actual possibilities are somehow limited by your own personal frame of experience, knowledge, or imagination.

            • chaogomu
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              11 year ago

              The fact that you’re unable to link to any of these “resources” says that you don’t know them.

              The only stateless societies you can point to seem to have less than 150 people (hunter-gatherers) Because that’s all that the human brain can support. Anything more requires bureaucracy. And that is the beginnings of government.

              • @unfreeradical
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                11 year ago

                The fact that you’re unable to link to any of these “resources” says that you don’t know them.

                Have you made any attempts to learn about the subject yet, or are you still just arguing and whining?

                • chaogomu
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                  11 year ago

                  You’re the one who can’t back up your position.

                  All my research says that it’s biologically not possible to have a stateless society of more than 150 people. You’ve given me literally nothing to refute this.

                  You’ve answered none of my questions about infrastructure or handling inter-community disputes, or really anything at all.

                  All you’ve put forward is that you think that the entire concept of representative democracy is flawed for reasons.

                  Reasons that rely on a very specific verbiage that you never bothered to explain, because you likely cannot.

                  At this point, I can conclude that you have no clue at all about anything. The only links you’ve provided have been to Wikipedia articles on logical fallacies that you seem to be engaging in.

                  • @unfreeradical
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                    11 year ago

                    All my research says that it’s biologically not possible to have a stateless society of more than 150 people. You’ve given me literally nothing to refute this.

                    Perhaps one useful starting point for you would be learning about tribal societies.

                    Tribes are non-state sociopolitical structures that unify bands or villages. Bands and villages are local groups that typically have less than a few hundred members.