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After watching Space Collective from the sideline, I decided to make a post about something that is on my mind for a few months now. Please keep in mind that English is not my native language.
In a few days the elections in the European Union will take place. One of the big issues is about the power the EU will have in it's states. Europe is going to look more and more like the United States of America and alot of people are afraid it won't be long untill the European countries form up into the United States of Europe. But we are not there yet.
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I used to be really into politics, I always had a strong view on politics, and I knew who was going to get my vote. Since a year I am not so sure anymore, because I am viewing the world from a higher viewpoint now.
People are and will always be debating about fascism versus democracy or communism versus capitalism, as if it's the fault of one of those systems that we do not live in a perfect society. Let me state first that I don't think there will ever be a perfect society; as long as there are people there will be people disagreeing with each other. But I do think we can achieve a better society then the ones we have now and not by choosing one of the systems we came up with in the last centuries. I would even dare to say that the systems probably don't even matter. I think the main problem of society is the size of it.
The world is shrinking, and so is the group of people with power. While our societies are taking huge proportions, the group in control is getting more invisible and unreachable then ever. Main concerns with these huge societies are the dissapearing privacy, loss of cultural identity and unpersonal lawsystems that hold their lobbies in higher esteem then the people. These are only few of many complains I am hearing and noticing everyday.
I believe that all of these problems can be solved by only fragmenting society in smaller societies. I am speaking of the size of communes. I do not know the ideal number of members one community should have, right now I am thinking about a few hundreds, maybe thousands. This way the differences between democratic, fascist or monarchic are small, they don't have a big impact since members of these societies will have relatively a lot more power. On a smaller scale the government will be serving it's people and will not be controlling it. And may the event occur that the leaders manage to misbehave, the inhabitants of the society can react more directly.
Cultural identity will flourish. Every community will have an identity of it's own. Governments won't take away the privacy of the individual for their own good though social control will rise again. It's debatable if that's positive or negative. In our current society judges and lawmakers always need to make a balance between the favour of society and the favour of the indivdual. In our small scale community, these decisions will be naturally much easier to make.
These communities would be independent of each other, but freedom of migrating, traveling or trading with and to other communities should be intact.
There are a few problem's about living small scale I can't find a solution for yet. Some of these are debatable if they are problems indeed as they can be seen as positive effects too.
In short: we would be all living like hundreds of years ago.
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At the moment it is impossible to flee from any government. On our planet there is no land unclaimed, a no-man's land does not exist. If one is not happy with his government, he or she is free to migrate to a different country. Unfortunately, if the event occurs that one is not content with any of the worlds governments, there is no way to go, one always needs to have a passport and a identity. It would be fair to at least have one land untouched by civilisation per continent ruled by no one. Complete anarchy. So that one can always go there and start a live on it's own. Ofcourse this would be the criminal's heaven and comparable with the pirate islands of a few centuries ago. But still, being given the chance to get away from it all should be there just out of principle.
Please give your feedback about the effectiveness of the whole idea and how the mentioned problems can be prevented.
Thanks for reading!
In a few days the elections in the European Union will take place. One of the big issues is about the power the EU will have in it's states. Europe is going to look more and more like the United States of America and alot of people are afraid it won't be long untill the European countries form up into the United States of Europe. But we are not there yet.
Image by myself
I used to be really into politics, I always had a strong view on politics, and I knew who was going to get my vote. Since a year I am not so sure anymore, because I am viewing the world from a higher viewpoint now.
People are and will always be debating about fascism versus democracy or communism versus capitalism, as if it's the fault of one of those systems that we do not live in a perfect society. Let me state first that I don't think there will ever be a perfect society; as long as there are people there will be people disagreeing with each other. But I do think we can achieve a better society then the ones we have now and not by choosing one of the systems we came up with in the last centuries. I would even dare to say that the systems probably don't even matter. I think the main problem of society is the size of it.
The world is shrinking, and so is the group of people with power. While our societies are taking huge proportions, the group in control is getting more invisible and unreachable then ever. Main concerns with these huge societies are the dissapearing privacy, loss of cultural identity and unpersonal lawsystems that hold their lobbies in higher esteem then the people. These are only few of many complains I am hearing and noticing everyday.
I believe that all of these problems can be solved by only fragmenting society in smaller societies. I am speaking of the size of communes. I do not know the ideal number of members one community should have, right now I am thinking about a few hundreds, maybe thousands. This way the differences between democratic, fascist or monarchic are small, they don't have a big impact since members of these societies will have relatively a lot more power. On a smaller scale the government will be serving it's people and will not be controlling it. And may the event occur that the leaders manage to misbehave, the inhabitants of the society can react more directly.
Cultural identity will flourish. Every community will have an identity of it's own. Governments won't take away the privacy of the individual for their own good though social control will rise again. It's debatable if that's positive or negative. In our current society judges and lawmakers always need to make a balance between the favour of society and the favour of the indivdual. In our small scale community, these decisions will be naturally much easier to make.
These communities would be independent of each other, but freedom of migrating, traveling or trading with and to other communities should be intact.
There are a few problem's about living small scale I can't find a solution for yet. Some of these are debatable if they are problems indeed as they can be seen as positive effects too.
- The desire of people to conquer other communities to gain more power.
- The progression of technique, philosophy, art etcetera would be much slower since massmedia and fast communication transport like internet will not exist anymore.
- Facilities targeted at big societies like hospitals, universities and postal services will not exist anymore in the way we know it today.
- Big companies like pharmaceutical companies or any company making products for the masses will die resulting in a lack of mass produced medicine etcetera. Whole communities could extinct from diseases because of this. However, pandemics won't occur (so fast).
- How do we prevent communities from teaming up? History learned us that people will always try form a bigger group, by conquering others or making diplomatic pacts. If we don't prevent this we will be back to current state in hundreds of years. This could be also seen as a uncontrollable wave form which we should not try to prevent as it is natural: societies build up and fragment after a revolution, then they slowly build up again.
In short: we would be all living like hundreds of years ago.
Image by myself
At the moment it is impossible to flee from any government. On our planet there is no land unclaimed, a no-man's land does not exist. If one is not happy with his government, he or she is free to migrate to a different country. Unfortunately, if the event occurs that one is not content with any of the worlds governments, there is no way to go, one always needs to have a passport and a identity. It would be fair to at least have one land untouched by civilisation per continent ruled by no one. Complete anarchy. So that one can always go there and start a live on it's own. Ofcourse this would be the criminal's heaven and comparable with the pirate islands of a few centuries ago. But still, being given the chance to get away from it all should be there just out of principle.
Please give your feedback about the effectiveness of the whole idea and how the mentioned problems can be prevented.
Thanks for reading!
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