Well, you’re making me think.Martin Hash wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:40 amYou romanticize Fascism but still a good metaphor.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:42 pmTribalism is a family squabble. Democracy is your neighbors ganging up on you.Martin Hash wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:15 pmDemocracy is 2 nincompoops telling me what to do, and tribalism is you & your brothers telling me what to do.
From your own example, it’s clear authoritarianism is man’s default state: liberty requires all parties being trained for it to work.
Fascism may well be a natural/default state, when you scale tribalism to the societal level. Can humans ever find a societal balance between the tribe and the larger whole? I really don’t know what that would look like.
Eliminate the small tribe and you have totalitarianism, whether fascistic or communist. How do you promote the family within a cohesive society, and still achieve national goals?
Maybe representative democracy is the best we can hope for…. But without severe checks on power, we descend back into totalitarianism.