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RE: The Cage Has a Door — And It's Wide Open
Hello Alex! We’re largely on the same wavelength here… I’ve written quite a bit on this subject over the last few years, but many ideas – on self-sufficiency, doing without state welfare systems, self-directed learning, moving away from representative democracy towards direct democracy, and so on – tend to be viewed as rather exotic and eccentric. Globally, the trend is towards a general desire for a patriarchal state that relieves the individual of all responsibility and all autonomy. Well, yes... It’s not quite how we imagined life in the future 50 years ago...
Thank you for this! You really nailed it.. these ideas only seem "eccentric" because we've been so thoroughly conditioned to see dependency as normal. Self-sufficiency used to just be called.. life!
That observation about the trend toward the patriarchal state is spot on. People are trading freedom for comfort without realising the comfort is temporary but the loss of autonomy isn't.
I'd love to check out some of your writing on this — especially the direct democracy stuff. Feel free to share a link! And let's keep having these conversations.. the "eccentric" ideas always end up being ahead of their time 🙏
Good morning! The link will take you to a rough selection – I’ll have another look later to see if I can offer you anything specific... There are some good people here who are working on the same topics. Not enough of them. But, like everything else, it’s a process... ;-))
https://moecki.online/search?tags=politics&author=weisser-rabe
https://moecki.online/search?tags=society&author=weisser-rabe
@blessedlife 🌷
