Everyone wants to build Utopia, but I only know that I have agency to improve things where I am able. I am not damned to inaction and despair. There is a Light burning, at the end of the tunnel, and it makes me strong. I get up, every day, and continue to fight.
And that is not nothing.
Laeserin
This is where I disagree. The strong is not a monolith. Some of the strong protect the weak, and some prey on them. There are different kinds of strength and they manifest in different ways, and history can take surprising turns.
*Are we, here, not among the strong?* Have we not created this digital space, with its just protocol, to govern it? So that the weak might have some place to run to, if they need it?
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lol. all of your solutions are anarchist solutions
They are minarchist solutions. That is usually the same thing, in practice, but not in theory.
Utopia cannot exist in this realm
Then there is anarchy - no ruling class that can legally initiate force against everyone else at all.
not all monarchs are tyrants. the blob that is created by the modern socialist liberal democratic state, however, is always tyrannical because the instigators are shielded by their puppeteering of politicians, who they have convinced everyone are "representatives". yes, of the corporations and oligarchs. the speed with which a good system can be turned bad using democracy is far higher than with monarchism. the king of Luxembourg is an example of a good king, and one of the few nation states left in the world.
that is the model recommended by the Bible also. and "render unto caesar" and the romans "respect the authoritaah" stuff, don't apply to tyrants.
the modern, headless (hidden hand) system is Babylon, a monster that pops up every so often, like the third reich, and like the current rules based bullshit.
i meant "city-state"
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