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Very interesting, thanks for taking the time. "Trying to not be evil just doesn't scale so easily": your remark reminded me of this quote from Leopold Kohr: "
by fdeage 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks for taking the time.
"Trying to not be evil just doesn't scale so easily": your remark reminded me of this quote from Leopold Kohr:
"There seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness. Oversimplified as this may seem, we shall find the idea more easily acceptable if we consider that bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem. It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation. Whenever something is wrong, something is too big. … And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutality, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. It is because human beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into overconcentrated social units."
(The Breakdown of Nations, 1957)