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Human nature (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (7 children)

Establish customs and structures that prevent power. It needs vigilance. There's evidence that before agriculture some humans exhibited "reverse dominance hierarchy," where if someone tried to assert dominance, the group would team up and ostracise, exile, or execute them.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    So all I gotta do is be the person delegated to the vigilance task and I'm golden for a takeover

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Zapatistas frequently rotate roles. There are no professional police or politicians.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    No no of course not, it'll only take a minute, and hey, I did such a good job with food distribution I can do it again if you want....

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    AFAIK, they aim so that every single person is rotated to every role (and only hold those roles for weeks before being rotated out); it's not like an election thing; it's more like a duty that everyone has to do. Whatever they're doing has been working for 3 decades.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Democracy and the separation of power is such a structure that we already have. It works perfectly fine if "the group would team up" and vote people that try to assert dominance out.

    We're just missing the "customs" that would make people do just that, and the question is how to establish this custom.

    It was already clear that we need customs that make people not give other people power, the question that I posed was how to start those customs you talk about.

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