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You can't. Removing rigid social structures, authorities, and hierarchy only results in those structures being slowly and informally reproduced once again, unti
by tetraca 8y ago
You can't. Removing rigid social structures, authorities, and hierarchy only results in those structures being slowly and informally reproduced once again, until someone once again formalizes and crystallizes a semi-authoritarian, hierarchical structure. Everything slowly centralizes itself to the maximum extent that the technology and economics of that time allows. Places where this does not happen in large scales are exceptional; the sheer logistical capability of a centralized system blows most decentralized systems out of the water once it finds its proper implementation. Systems of high freedom and low centralization can only exist fleetingly, in times where resources are plentiful and there is wide expanse, where the roots of authority have not yet had time to grow. At best you can delay the process with education and good civics, but eventually no matter how well you draft your founding documents, no matter how good your teachers are, crisis, fragmentation, and desperation will eventually invite the authoritarian again.
If you reran history ten thousand times and adjusted the positions of 10 thousand butterflies, the Mahknos of history will never prevail against the Lenins, the people will crown and laud their Caesars and Napoleons and Frederick William IVs, etc. That we will ever get a luxury space communism is a fantasy.