I don't get this false dichotomy, the sheep can both vote and do organized self-defense.
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Beatling democracy sais that we have a vote every few years which may sound nice, but distracts us from making decisions otherwise. We are alienated from the decision making process. This is the nature of hierarchical systems though, they need representatives in fern to be functioning.
The lokening is to move away from hierarchical towards locally run societies. Because then the decisionmaking will be direct as opposed to representative. For instance we can see this in democratic confederalism.
How do those systems deal with large-scale tragedies of the commons? I don't see how it would work for even shallow tragedies of the commons like CFC emissions, let along deep ones like climate change.
I deleted the last answer because it was too unfocused.
Tragedy of the commons assumes that we don't organize. With democratic confederalism, there is a focus on organizing, to come to agreements about how to properly take care of the land and the people. By doing so, we prevent harms from happening.
Tragedy of the commons assumes that we don't organize.
It doesn't assume that. It's merely describing a phenomenon where it's in everyone's individual interest (or in every small community's individual interest) to behave in a way that maximizes their benefit, but when everyone behaves that way it damages a common asset and causes collective harm .
Simply organizing doesn't solve any of it.
I think it's showing the issue quite clearly: Vote and then shut up when it comes to political participation, because you exhausted all the ways you can influence policy.
Yeah, that's a story about how voter manipulation through threats is bad, not about how voting is bad.
I'm sure fascists love it when anarchists tell everyone not to vote, makes it nice and easy for them.
Thats not the point of the post
I mean you posted a story where the overall lesson is "voting bad"
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