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I’m working on a project that I hope will help, a non-hierarchical, volunteer society that would simply move away from people who start trying to run the show.
https://slrpnk.net/c/murmuration
That sounds absolutely useless in the real world.
People can’t just up and move their entire life every time some shit heel tries to exert some authority.
Also it requires those people to want to leave. The whole problem with populist fascists is that they’re good at winning purple over
Everybody wants out, they just disagree about the way to the exit because the current system has them confounded.
I don’t agree, the MAGA crowd certainly doesn’t want out - if anything, they want everyone else to leave. And so by leaving you’d be giving the fascists a clear field
They think the way out of their suffering is to kill the outliers. They still want out. They just suffer for different reasons, born from their narcissistic beliefs.
even if that were true, you still don’t present a way to actually solve the problem. Say a charismatic person arose from within your society, and without trying to excersize any actual authority, goes about winning the hearts and minds (and most importantly loyalty) of the others in the society. Not in the way of an actual “leader” persay, but just in a “They’re everyone’s best friend and confident” kind of way.
Now once they have a following within your society, they start to excersize pressures and influences slowly to change things they way they want. After-all, your society would have to allow changes, or else it would risk stagnating over time, or being unequipped to deal with changing circumstances, then when people get used to they’re influence, and are convinced by this charismatic leader that they really have all their best interests at heart, and that they know the best way forward - they makes a power grab.
Literally all of human history says that this is not only possible - but guaranteed - and yes, people are free to leave after that, but he’s already won over a huge chunk of the society, and they now want to stay - the rest will basically be forced to start a new group from scratch. Many won’t want to leave all their friends and family behind over what are basically just political differences (again - see all of human history for examples), so a large chunk of the people who aren’t actually won over by the charismatic leader will also choose to stay. So a relatively tiny minority is now free to choose to either peel off and begin recruiting and striving to find enough members to create a viable collective once again - or (far more likely IMO) they just break up and go their own seperate ways, wondering what went wrong with their dreams of utopia.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a noble ambition, but it runs straight into all the same problems that most plans of this sort do - which is that humans are humans. Some of us just can’t stand to not try to own everything, and most of us are deeply susceptible to charismatic leaders. Again, that’s not my opinion, that’s all of human history.
And before you say “Well, we’d have left well before he got so much influence” - are you planning to leave every time someone is good at making friends? Everytime someone convinces their friends over to their own viewpoint? Who gets to decide what constitutes a threat? If the answer is “every individual” than how could the society help but be constantly splitting apart into smaller and smaller pieces as they cut off more and more of the group. And what if the charismatic leader just goes with you? Do your members have the authority to detain them? And what about their friends? Are they expected to just abandon their friend because they’re too friendly, and that’s suspicious?
Sorry, but I just don’t buy it as a viable strategy. Seems like the kind of thing that sounds great on paper, but would collapse within a few years at best
I know you haven’t read any of the material on the page because your concerns have been addressed already.
I did in fact read them, I just don’t agree that it’s actually addressed beyond vague handwaves like “we’ll be vigilant”
Sounds like a cult to me
Bugging out is the last resort. The first tactic is opening up a line of communication using constructive language. You heard one sentence about a very complex movement and you screamed out in resistance. I thought you were an advocate of change, why do you fight for the familiar status quo without considering alternatives?
Mate it’s fucking lunacy.
It’s fucking asinine gibberish saying half of much of nothing. You’ve espoused no new ground breaking ideas, if anything you’ve weakened the SolarPunk movement through what sounds like some highly sus ecofash sounding shit.
Stop acting like some enlightened philosopher here to save us all with your shower thought of the week and get out there and go plant some native flora already.
I do plant native flora. I feel bad for you. Your accusations of eco-fascism are obviously projections. You will never be happy unless YOU lead the change. The sad part is that you can lead change in a non-hierarchical structure like the Murmuration, but you will never make a meaningful difference under the system you’re defending with your hatred.
Is this a cult?
Define cult. Nobody can tell you what to do in the Murmuration. Each member is an authority unto themselves.
A bunch of people going to live in the middle of nowhere in a wierd society with hippie/new age ideals with a charismatic leader. And also lots of forced heavy labor.
Project Murmurations says, “If you believe that going into the middle of nowhere in a wierd society with hippie/new age ideals with a charismatic leader and lots of labor serves yourself and your community then do it. You are also free to change your course if you find that your plan isn’t working out.”
It offers tools to assist in creating self-sustaining communities and a shared identity based on a simple philosophy. Since every member is an authority, every member is free to serve the project however they see fit. There are suggestions at https://slrpnk.net/c/murmuration
Your intentions sound good and i agree we should throw hiearchy out the window and i like sustainability too, but i dont really understeand what you are, is it just a fediverse sub? Or like a discord server or you go to to a compound and do the whole hippie cult thing? Because i whent to the link and all i see are pictures of birds with new age text on them and all are posted by you m8, so im not really buying it.
It’s a Project I conceived, and I hope that other people understand how it works and begin to participate. Most of the time people see that somebody is trying something and they start trying to pick it apart without understanding any of it. They act like reading a few paragraphs of text and considering a different mode of operating is worse than pulling teeth and they retreat back into the familiar ignorance of comment trolling.
Yeah but what is the idea? I read your post about the whole changing mentality thing, but is nothing concreethe, i just whant you to explain me what is the project about, since all ive seen are birds and ideological thingies, i dont undearsteand what is it that you are trying to acomplish.
First line of the pinned post.
What doesn’t that answer for you?