Another Pynchon theme manifesting again in the real world.

[Mark Kohut]

True in the West, the US we know I guess, but NOT as universal as you state it. Lots of voters in Germany in the early 20th Century. 
Lots of alt societies where the running of things is different than you write. ....

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> On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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. 
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>>> On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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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