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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
What you are wishing for is a kind of "local" anarchism - again, fine in theory, but it would never work in practice.
Now again: short of persuading the entire goddamn electorate to not vote, what practical, achievable solutions do you have as an alternative to voting? The age of mass protest is over, and the State is incredibly effective at clamping down on that now...
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no, I did not say local anarchism, that is probably as much the opposite of what I am suggesting as is representative democracy.
I didn't invent the world, I just live in. The reality is that the methods I have already proposed, solid community and individual initiative and direct action, have already been proven in a hundred instances across the globe and across this past century to be the only successful alternative, in fact, the only way any of the real benefits of our so-called
civilization manage to get accomplished is through individuals, not governments
. If the age of mass protest and public organization is over, then we are all truly fucked, and should seek shelter in hiding, however, I have much more faith in the good of humanity than that. We as a species have overcome enough of our own self-induced bullshit, mass slavery and genocide every ten years for thousands of years of human history, and yet, here we are, and truthfully there is more good then bad, so I am confident in the victory, but it will not come from supposed democracy which is really just
complacency.