Another Pynchon theme manifesting again in the real world.

[David Morris]

Condo associations are very personal small governments.  Too few members
make for dictatorships. I suspect tribes are similar.  More voters mean
more potential rulers, and thus fewer potential dictators.

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:29 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> There have to have been many, many societies with less social and
> political control(s) than The West. Which patriarchies are his historic
> settings.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Was there ever an indigenous or other alt people that practiced anarchy? I
> don't think so.  Matriarchy was supplanted by Patriarchy.  Maybe Anarchy
> was before both.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anarchism. Pervasive as we know (and been written about).
>>
>> Anarchism, not as any kind of policy or new government notion but
>> precisely as getting shit done *without* government, *outside of it. *
>>
>> The natural way hundreds of thousands of simple citizens
>> "self-organized"--
>> this is the key,-- like the deaf-mute dance under the bridge where
>> everyone
>> dances together without bumping with no one having to direct the dancing--
>> like the search and rescue and help operation in Houston after Harvey.
>>
>> Since a guy named Prince wrote about the "spontaneous groupings" of
>> volunteer
>> help after the Halifax explosion disaster , it has always been a part of
>> every disaster
>> since. They say.
>>
>> Spontaneous groupings = self-organizing= equal apolitical, non-violent
>> anarchism in
>> the real world.
>>
>
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