I agree wholeheartedly with your solution of re-organizing society at the local level, on a community basis. The communities for the communities, and yeah, some of them might not stand up, and they'll get gobbled by the same sorts of robber barons we've been dealing with for centuries. At least in this solution people actually have a voice, and their needs might get met, rather than waiting for some faraway series of committees to finish deliberating how they will deal with things.