While that's true I do see a caveat (and I support an end to this system mind you).
I do not think there have been large enough successful efforts by revolutionary groups like social anarchists, libertarian socialists, ecological permaculturists, etc. to create alternative social structures (like cooperative farms and productives , free storehouses, gardens, some kind of elderly, mental, disabled, birth care etc.) as of yet, so a collapse could in some areas lead to conditions like in Somalia, whereas I have no doubt in the more rural areas people with access to more practical skills and land might be able to get by on barter and cooperative defense.
Hopefully, growing one's own food will become more universal gradually so a complete overnight collapse of paper assets won't catch the world completely unprepared
This is exactly what I'm expressing above, I just think there is more too it.
Specifically, I believe are needed: a widespread dispensation of practical knowledge about the natural world and DIY tactics, anarchist ethics with regard to social/sexual/community relations, an abandonment of the silly concept that the earth and its resources should be privately owned to keep other people from feeding themselves and laboring to take care of their needs through force, distribution of small arms for personal protection and collective defense (i.e. popular armament so no one group is exercising a monopoly on force and hence "in power" to create the system all over again).
I could go on but I think those are very important to make such a frankly revolutionary transition as tragic-less as possible.
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Date: 1/5/13 22:23 (UTC)I do not think there have been large enough successful efforts by revolutionary groups like social anarchists, libertarian socialists, ecological permaculturists, etc. to create alternative social structures (like cooperative farms and productives , free storehouses, gardens, some kind of elderly, mental, disabled, birth care etc.) as of yet, so a collapse could in some areas lead to conditions like in Somalia, whereas I have no doubt in the more rural areas people with access to more practical skills and land might be able to get by on barter and cooperative defense.
Hopefully, growing one's own food will become more universal gradually so a complete overnight collapse of paper assets won't catch the world completely unprepared
This is exactly what I'm expressing above, I just think there is more too it.
Specifically, I believe are needed: a widespread dispensation of practical knowledge about the natural world and DIY tactics, anarchist ethics with regard to social/sexual/community relations, an abandonment of the silly concept that the earth and its resources should be privately owned to keep other people from feeding themselves and laboring to take care of their needs through force, distribution of small arms for personal protection and collective defense (i.e. popular armament so no one group is exercising a monopoly on force and hence "in power" to create the system all over again).
I could go on but I think those are very important to make such a frankly revolutionary transition as tragic-less as possible.