I’ll take that as a response.

"See that’s the problem I have with this position. Knowledge is something you either have or don’t. Its something that can be kept from you. If someone can be ‘in the know’ about anarchy by studying it, that creates systems of hierarchy and power. Defining it is intellectual oppression. It becomes just another form of political domination and control. Anarchy is, in fact, just vibes. "

This is ridiculous. There is no world where everyone could have perfectly equal knowledge. That is obviously an extremely silly hill to die on, and you are doing very little by trying to squash it on a completely individual level.

Why not work with others to try to bring equality in more tangible ways? Unfortunately you’d have to learn how to effectively run a mutual aid group. Wouldn’t that put you ‘in the know’?

Oh the horrors of learning to cook huge batches of food for your community. What a terrible form of intellectual oppression. We must sit still and conver our eyes for fear of doing something wrong.

I see the take! I may just be a bit too idealist to agree fully, but obviously that world would be way better than our current one. Thanks for sharing.

Okay I’ve had an incling that you aren’t arguing in good faith but now I’m convinced enough to say something. If you don’t respond to my points about the effort it would take to realistically reduce hierarchy then I’ll be out of steam.

The libertarianism parts are a side quest. The main quest is your belief that maintaining your ignorance is important for you to be anarchist.

Hi cowbee! Hope you’re doing well. Got an anti-anarchism spiel for me? I’m not gonna debate it really, I’m just curious on your thoughts. I see an optimal society as one with as little hierarchy as possible and anarchism as the most pure philosophy on achieving that.

Here are some starting points for ya lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

I see how you could get them confused as they both are about minimizing governance. From my understanding libertarianism is more broad with it. Anarchism still tries to create an egalitarian society though while liberalism is extremely laissez faire.

The vast majority of anarchist have noticed that the world we live in is very unequal and have therefore concluded that it will take work to make a world without hierarchy. A quick look at the history books will show you that anarchist societies aren’t the most stable. Now we’ve never seen an anarchist world so it is hard to say if that would be stable, but anarchist societies embedded in hierarchical worlds are tough to sustain.

Though I’m starting to think that you have really mixed together libertarianism and anarchism into something. So note that when I say anarchism I specifically mean realistic attempts to minimize hierarchy and not pure anti government.

A lack of rules feels more like libertarianism than anarchism. Hierarchy will form if you just sit around and let it. Don’t you agree?

The IT is basically whatever egalitarian system we know we can perpetuate. Being anti hierarchy is much more complex and active than just vibing it out.

Unfortunately we have to live in the real world though. IMO anarchy will likely always be a direction rather than a position. I have a fearful inclination to belive that humans naturally form hierarchy and therefore we must learn how to mitigate that tendency. I can’t imagine a better world appears from ignorance and vibes.

It’s hard for me to imagine anarchy existing without a culture that believes in it and knows how to execute on it. That’ll take a lot of hard work and knowledge to produce.

I mean, standing in the shoulders of giants and all that. May as well lean into the human ability to be more effective by learning from generations of experience.

Unfortunately we have been boned since the immunity ruling.

I enjoyed Rome and rural Italy. I just didn’t mesh with Venice. Idk what to tell you. It was a bad experience for me.

Also we’re both on Lemmy so we likely both have our reasons for avoiding companies like McDonald’s.

Oof homie

I’m not really a gambler. Glad you like Venice. I’ll give a list to counter:

Claustrophobic, terrible smell, rarely air conditioned, hard to find food that isnt just carbs and fat.

The museums are cool though.

I’ve only been to Venice out of the two and I very much disliked Venice. So Vegas must be pretty bad.

My company is doing small trial runs and trying to get feedback on if stuff is helpful. They are obviously pushing things because they are hopeful, but most people report that AI is helpful about 45% of the time. I’m sorry your leadership just dove in head first. That’s sound like such a pain.

I seem to compare less when I care more about contributing than winning. I feel more stablely valuable when I feel I am working towards a greater good.

Also, I don’t think comparison is a conscious thing. Not every time at least. So really a good angle may be to try and be more accepting and react more comfortably to the comparisons you naturally make.

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Honestly all it is for my family is eat the big meal and watch the game. I usually nap during the latter part because I ate so much.

If I’m at my moms then we might do some games. Sometimes we do what is called an “auction party”. Where everyone who shows up brings two things they don’t want anymore. Then we all get the same amount of fake money and sit in the same room and bid on it. I can be real funny with gag items going through long bidding wars. It can also be pretty helpful to get an item you actually care about.

During a covid auction party a half used bottle of hand sanitizer had an absolutely riotous bidding war over it.

Ah dude I feel that so much with looking at pond samples under the microscope. It was and still is quite magical, but you can’t beat seeing it for the first time. Just a whole other world right there.

My phone has a option in battery settings for setting max charge to 80%.

There is only one of me.