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It's very interesting indeed. A while ago I read Carl Popper's Open Society and it's Enemies. In that book he argues that Plato and to some extent Aristotle have developed underlying philosophical tools to support, for a lack of better term, "closed" societies. For example slaves rather remain slaves, farmers remain farmers, and rulers remain rulers. He argues that they contribute to a totalitarianism, and undermine democracy by discouraging being equal and in general "change".
Take all this with a grain of salt, since it's a while I've read the book, so can't articulate it better. But your comment reminded me of all this, so I thought it might be interesting for you and other readers.
ps: I personally think there is no natural place for things, that's us, sentient beings, who define that and give things meanings.
No, not really. I'm still learning my way around in Lemmy. I use wefwef.app and just recently the developer has added a subreddit import feature which might be able to find matching communities for you. though didn't work great for me.
Same here. btw, I just subscribed to [email protected] , it has over 500 members, so you might want to check it out.