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The Abolition of Society

Is society The Problem?

That is to say, do we still need to run a tribal hierarchy to rise to the great new heights which Mr. Musk is nobly striving for? 

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Allow me to make myself abundantly clear: these post are asking for people to think, not necessarily to act. So do not take them as a judgement but an positive opportunity to visualise the future for our descendants.

Do we still need leaders like the apes do to govern the tribe? With rewards for those who signal obedience to authority. And punishment for those who do not.

Apes need leaders and a hierarchy because without them any slight hiccup puts the tribe in serious jeopardy. The tribe could be wiped out by even a temporary shortage of food and shelter.

I don't mean to say that society needs to be abolished. But if it's holding us back, why not?

By abolition I mean to rid ourselves of the hierarchy. Do we need leadership any more? If so, pray tell me why exactly.

For example, the economy can produce ten thousand times as much output in wealth, per unit hour of labour and capital input, than it could in Roman times. A spectacular advance. 

The point is there is never going to be a time in the future where we run out of anything we need to survive. Existential threat is only possible from stray asteroids or the hierarchy we insist on obeying doing it on purpose.

The only real threat to humanity any more is that all of us insist on being obedient instruments of authority. The reason for this is because within a hierarchy, signalling obedience is rewarded, not doing so is punished. It still works so well because obedience is the best way to climb the political, social and economic ladders.

The curious thing is, this obedience pathology has been the case for about two thousand years now. No one dares talking about the abolition of society so that we could finally start to climb to new heights. That would not be signalling obedience. And if we cannot achieve this, the horrors Mr. Musk is earnestly trying to help us escape will simply follow us into space with the same ferocity.

So what do I propose?

To stop paying respect to authority by your obedience to it. And to start becoming autonomous people. 

Where will that go? I have no idea. And it will be the first step humanity has made on its evolutionary journey for ten thousand years.

NOTE: I am not an anarchist. That is just another power structure requiring a hierarchy and your obedience.

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