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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It could even be reasonably argued that socdem countries, or maybe even broader speaking liberal democracies, already had the necessary revolutions we just need to get better at dismantling the remnants of the old by providing alternatives in ways that don't risk other advances. Pretty much parallel to the Sudden Enlightenment, Gradual Cultivation doctrine you see in Zen: Neither is it guaranteed that you notice enlightenment (in the sense of realising that that's what happened to you), nor is it in any way guaranteed that you suddenly cease to be a shithead. Nor will you find a way of gradual cultivation that makes you unlearn how to tie your shoes. Not going to happen.

Or, differently put: If you wish to convert a village to anarchism, one of the first things to do is figure out how to organise trash collection and water distribution. You might say "but it's a state mandate that municipalities provide these things! We haven't agreed to anything like that!". My sibling in Discord you're ready to abolish bedtime when you're wise enough to voluntarily go to bed early, again. Don't make theoretical principles the enemy of praxis.

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