The reason I am a socialist and not an anarchist is because I think it should be illegal to email me and there should be a government office which enforces that.
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under socialism you WILL get to watch live footage of armed police battering down the doors of your old boss’s home and tazing him as recompense for him being a shithead
I'm not a Zizek Stan, but he's right about direct democracy in an anarchist system. I don't want to spend my life in community debates arguing with nimby karens
And I honestly think this is one of my critiques of Zizek - and it comes from the influences of Hegel and Lacan on his work - that he tends to universalize human psychology like all people think in basically the same ways regardless of the social context they're in...
Even though a lot of his examples such as the authoritarian father who commands obedience vs the contemporary father who uses guilt instead depend on a high level of cultural specificity to parse.
Also, have to have a government in order to pass my law that requires all film, television, and video game productions where any creator who says the phrase "historical accuracy" to hire an actual historian armed with a cricket bat at all production meetings and/or on set to enforce that.
Reminds of several job interviews I went to where they stressed the importance of checking and responding to work emails, they never responded to any of my emails.
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So the best way to avoid NIMBYs (notwithstanding jokes about exile) is to build a culture without enclosed back yards.