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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This rings 100% true for me in regards to anarchism, communism, capitalism, socialism, feudalism... Pretty much any organisational structure that mankind has or will ever conceive.

People are difficult, irrational and unpredictable. Put a whole bunch of people together on a plot of land, multiply that 1 billion times over and you get the unfathomable clusterfuck that is modern civilization. Not even being defeatist about it, just pointing out the factual reality that the perfect society does not and will never exist, far from it. I am aware I'm rambling on and pointing out the obvious here.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    well, at least until aliens invade.

    people tend to be remarkable cooperative when faced with an external existential threat. most countries cohere quite well when they are in a state of war.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    We got covid, and a lot of countries governments took advantage of it and spread misinformation and active vaccine denial. That's about as close to an alien invasion as we're gonna get, and we kinda failed disastrously at it.

    I used to think we'd come together over an external threat too. Now I'm not so sure. In fact, we might even get people denying that it's even happening.

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