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by programmarchy 3411 days ago
Agree. Forced fraternity is not liberty. I want decentralized, local decision making for my community. Globalization of state power takes things in the other direction.
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>I want decentralized, local decision making for my community. Globalization of state power takes things in the other direction.

I think we both agree that a centralized global hierarchy of power is impractical.

But what about a modular decentralized network of local and non local communities across the globe working together in symbiosis?

"But what about a modular decentralized network of local and non local communities across the globe working together in symbiosis?"

Zuck is working against that.

'Sovereign nations, interacting and trading with one another with mutual respect and fraternity' is practically the motto of for example the UKIP party in the UK - but it's denigrated by most globalist types.

Most globalists want more power to the UN, more power to the EU, more power even to at the Federal level of the US, more power to globally governing entities.

They are usually good people, who think that they know better than the common person.

Here is a good example of a voice for staunch globalism: Jean Claude Junker, President of the EU Commission:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

You can read quite a lot from his quotes - they are quite authoritarian and in many ways totally anti-democratic.

   a modular decentralized network of local and non local 
  communities across the globe working together in symbiosis?
Okay, but how?
Look at the FOSS community, they're already doing it.

The biggest barriers to scaling up are not technical but social (i.e. IP laws, legacy spaghetti tax and trade codes, prejudices).

I wonder if someone's working on something based on that: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-...