Can the system be changed by education and bottom-up revolution?
I think this is the only way that is compatible with anarchism.
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Can the system be changed by education and bottom-up revolution?
I think this is the only way that is compatible with anarchism.
Agreed. That's the solution that I'm trying to implement. Currently, my team is building SteemIQ, which initially is a simple and imperfect tool to predict the quality of posts, but the future implications are much greater: https://steemit.com/development/@nphacker/steemiq-me-how-smart-is-your-writing-find-out-your-steemiq
If we can incentivize people to free themselves from public education through a bottom up approach, we can actually make this happen. There are a lot of problems that distract us about Statism, but I would say education is the root of many of the other problems. If you can free yourself from state indoctrinated schooling and state approved certification, you can completely free your mind and free yourself from the state. This requires a massive grassroots educational overhaul blockchain style.
Well, certainly one can not force it onto people. But I believe all of the above have some merit to them.
By leaving society and starting over (say on an island), while you certainly have to deal with the external environment, you are not under direct control of any state. It sets an example people can look at, and compare to their current ways and whoever wants to join is welcome to do so. Eventually, it could take over the world.
If you play by the rules to gain support that is deemed legitimate by the existing system, you can also implement changes in small increments. For example, you could switch from representative democracy to direct democracy. It would encourage people to think for themselves, teach them that they are in control of their own lives and anyone could step up to bring about the change they want to see. You could then move from compulsory taxes to voluntary support of worthy initiatives. And so on. Eventually, people would realize there's no need for state.
One of the problems with going off and doing it in some other place is that typically such experiments have been crushed by outside force. Especially if it began to spread and threaten the status quo, I think they would send in the armies pretty quickly, or just use drones.
And the state itself is incapable of reforming itself into a vehicle for our liberation. They tried this in the USSR and while some good things happened, it fell well short of anything of the sort... Even though the intention in creating state socialism was to bring about the withering of the state and the emergence of a truly egalitarian society.
Yes, unfortunately, this would be the most likely outcome.
I wouldn't be so sure. I think it's important not to force the ideals onto people and promise to give them power later. Instead, give them the power first, and watch them all learn to wield it. The only thing is, the learning ramp is pretty steep from the point we're at right now, so it may not be so pretty to watch as people initially try to figure things out.
Actually, I think the upcoming, inevitable mass automation that the current system failed to prepare for may be an opportunity to jumpstart this process. Unfortunately, it will not be pretty either.