Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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Did you ready any of what I said?
I did, and it's a lot of words to over-simplify complex issues in large societies that can't get around the fact that you can not vote on every single decision that has to be made and therefor you must choose people to make decisions on your behalf and that doing that is a government
For example, you can't ask just the Doctors why hospital visits are up by 50% because not everyone will even agree it's an issue for doctors. Architects and carpenters are going to say it's a problem with bad buildings and crooked stairs. Safety people are going to argue it's a problem of crime. City Planners are going to say it's an issue of confusing roads and too much traffic. Farmers are going to blame it on a lack of plentiful potatoes, religious people are going to say you need to sacrifice more goats, etc...
And the doctors aren't all going to agree on one solution. And neither are the architects or the carpenters or the city planners. So the doctors bring you 3 solutions, the architects bring you 5 solutions, the people in charge of safety bring you 3 solutions, etc...
And even if you could just ask one group of people and have a simple vote, that's not the only problem you're facing. Yeah hospital visits are up 50% but food growth is down 15%, crime has increased by 7%, tests are showing a drop in education, people are just generally less happy than they were 3 years ago, Mrs. Smith is accusing Bobby Duncun of trampling her flowers, etc...
You can't just be like, "OK, the doctors say build more beds" so lets do that because you don't have infinite resources and now you have to figure out what to do with the limited resources you have. Do you build beds or barrels for apples? You can't do both. And it's not just two things, it's a hundred things, that all need to be done, and you can't do them all because you don't have the resources or the time to get them all done.
And again, you can't have a trillion votes on every single decision, you don't have time. And even if you did, you don't know enough about any of this to make any kind of decision. And the solution isn't as easy as snapping your fingers and making it happen
You have to ask your neighbors for supplies, and they also have resource issues so they may or may not be able to give them to you. They don't have infinite wood to give to everyone who asks and you're not the only one asking them for wood.
Oh, and your neighbors are asking you for shit and you don't have infinite resources to give to them
So if you need wood and the town the has wood needs apples and you have apples.... well, you've just invented trade. You give us the wood we need instead of giving the wood to that other town and we'll give you the apples you need instead of us giving our apples to that other town. We would give everyone all the apples and wood everyone needs, if we had enough apples and wood to give to everyone. We don't.
So now add in to your complex resource issue the fact that you want to build beds, and barrels, but also you need to give some of your steel to your neighbors, and you need to get wood from your neighbors and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Even if you think you have a solution you can't actually do all of the solutions. So now you have to ask questions like, "Should we bargin our limited resources on this solution and hope it fixes a big issue but honestly we don't know if it'll work OR do we spend our limited resources on this project that we know will work but solves a problem that isn't as serious"
And you're doing that a thousand times a day
So you just say, "Fuck it, lets just pick a few doctors to make medical decisions and a few city planners to make city planning decisions, and a few accountant to manage the resources, and a few safety people to manage our security and they can figure it out"
And that's what they do. And then you wake up and find out that the doctors decided sugary drinks are bad and so you can't have them anymore and the safety people have decided to put flock cameras on every street corner and... oh, you've remade the government