Mind dump on community
Here is a bit of a mind-dump on anthropology, democracy and community. It doesn’t really make sense as an essay.
Community, Communitas, Communism, Communal, Commune.
The saying: ‘it takes a village to raise a child’
I say ‘it takes a village to support an adult’
But that support is NOT available. British society is an atomised society.
Family structures are still important (but maybe structured by money at some level?).
Consumerism, Individualism, Thatcherism deeply influence British society.
All supposedly create personal choice, responsibility & freedom but to me create a barren joyless society.
In an anarchist society there might be rule by the majority view or rule by custom.
Maybe this dynamic of sturdy individualism has been going on in Eurasia for millions of years back to the split between takers and leavers. (Daniel Quinn)
Need to access more academic papers to support this argument.
Need to prove it… but what am I proving… hasn’t it already been proven but the world just won’t listen.
Time to write my anti civilizational book or questioning civilizational book.
Potent ideas can be misinterpreted.
It all boils down to the dreary, dissatisfying nature of life. Look around you!
I am constantly Flip flopping on my anthropology studies. Wanna study more but in many ways I don’t see academia as any kind of repository of wisdom. Just accumulation of uselsess knowledge.
I am into Stoicism and Stoicism is ok but would you need stoicism in a world that made any sense. In a sane world would people have to suffer to prove something?
Maybe at the moment rather than studying the arcanae of anthropology it would be better to put my efforts into protecting democracy (then again what can I really do). In a world that loses democracy there will likely be less anthropological, blue-skies research.
I was Interested in the anarchist take on protecting democracy. There was an Article in Freedom Magazine saying ‘MAGA Ascendancy’. But then the far left likes to have a far right to battle.
Overall how can we create seeds of community and fragments of community.