Thanks for your ramble on anarchism, it’s a good read, but there are some things that always puzzle me with this ideal: that is one definition of anarchy but it is not the anarchy that anarchists desire ;3 How does a society prevent, or at least reduce the chance of, tipping into “everyone just does whatever they want and fucks everyone else over”? I can see how this works when the society is small enough that everyone knows everyone else, and can get together to self-correct. Once you get past that size limit though, which is around 150 from the studies I’ve seen IIRC, you’re going to tend to get cliques and factions forming, who may well work against each other, especially if some resource is constrained. Capitalism and, what I shall generously call, “representative” democracy as systems seem less at risk as they sort of rely on that behaviour to function. I’m not saying that’s good, but it’s resilient up to a very high level of inequality. we believe that it is a better way of living and organizing and we can start building it here and now by just doing those things Absolutely! I see so many people talking about other systems, but comparatively few actually making them happen. In most places there is enough space in the current system to build small examples of different approaches and show how they work better.