US Politics on Sidechat | At the end of the day the entirety of human history has been a struggle against authority, human existence is to live how you please while lifting all others up. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a grifter or a fraud.

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At the end of the day the entirety of human history has been a struggle against authority, human existence is to live how you please while lifting all others up. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a grifter or a fraud.

Anonymous 1d

Technically you’re not wrong. But it’s disingenuous to say that and not acknowledge that ever since humans have assimilated into tribes there have been struggles against authority.

Anonymous 1d

Eh. Feels like an oversimplification. Anarchist societies tend not to persist because authority is useful. There is a value to the ability to direct the movement of resources. All the way back in ancient Mesopotamia, temples were able to organize the trade and distribution of goods, enabling more luxury to their cities than could exist otherwise.

Anonymous 1d

No, well run benevolent empires like China have been the norm for all of history. Humans have always respected authority so long as their basic needs are provided.

Anonymous 1d

And no that doesn’t mean do whatever you want, my ideology falls down to “do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t hurt someone else”

Anonymous

#1 1d

Two things can be true.

Anonymous

#2 1d

Authority is, inherently, likely to be abused. Those who have it are going to use it to enrich themselves. But organized governments tend to appear again and again because they are useful. Take Rome. Was it good or was it bad? If you were a Gaul subject to genocide under Caesar, or a Thracian enslaved in the arena, your answer was easy. But the resource and knowledge distribution allowed for unprecedented quality of life and population increases around the Mediterranean.