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I think my problem is that I don't have a set of beliefs that I can put down like that. Which is to say, I was reading Lyra's and thinking "yes! Good!" But then the angst fairies started picking away at issues of independence and self-determination and my head fell off. I am the classic comedy liberal who literally cannot get and stick to a position on anything.
But...
On one level I'm an anarchist, or more precisely an anarcho-syndicalist, seeing a web-accelerated breakup of the world into communities which can create things locally, trade across what may or may not still be their nation for others, and procure others through further-length communicatin, The aim being to reduce environemntally unfriendly long-haul portage, particularly of goods that could be produced locally. Problem withj that being that to make it work, among many, many other things, the third world has a) to be given aid in realising its wealth of resources and b) to stop being buttfucked by global finance. And, realistically, you probably need c) some sort of global enforcer, which is not exactly true to the principles of Bakhunin.
And that's my problem. Like LYra, I can't see how the state can be got rid of right now. I'm sure they are ways, but they are progressive.
And, although I am all for personal liberties on one level, another side of me is suffering from serious "friendly Hitler" syndrome. Crack down on personal car ownership, tax the rich, rebuild a public service-based infrastructure, provide incentives for homeworking....basically, how much of that is altruism and a desire to minimise wastage and how much of it is a desire to make the world better for people like me, or to enforce what I believe to be sensible decisions against the wishes of others? What gives hypothetical policymake Tann that right?
So, basically, I'm more likely to savage my own limp-wristed milquetoast beliefs than any other person. |
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