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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is a spectrum between Anarchy and Totalitarianism. The closer you are to Anarchy the more unstable it is. There is no point in fantasizing about a form of government that is too unstable to exist for any worthwhile amount of time. Libertarianism is about as close as I think we could ever successfully get.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There is no point in doing anything then, since aiming for perfection is always futile.

Totalitarianism is also an impossible abstract ideal too. Also unstable.

Yet we live in the spectrum. We can affect the spectrum. We need to understand it, even at its extremes.

Why look at other galaxies? To learn about our own.

If I can fantasize about a minarchy in my hard-sci-fi, then maybe that might inspire people to actually try to shift on the spectrum, if only a little. And maybe it might become an alternative to the dystopian Brave New 1984 Worlds.

Aim high, and even if you fall short, you're still higher than you were.