@newt
Somewhere in Japan the land might indeed be a scarce resource, but yeah, I agree! Even in Russia, where the land is the thing not even remotely in scarcity, they will likely retaliate sooner or later.
Funny thing is when they started handing out parcels of land in one of the northeastern regions (in order to pillage it later when people build something worthy of it),didn't work — probably because calling that land inhabitable would be a major stretch 🤣
@theorytoe @joey

@m0xee @joey @theorytoe in essence, the state intervention into anything is the force of natural selection that favours bigger actors and their cooperation. Societies are just as much the subjects to Darwinian evolution as the humans who constitute them, so more state results in societies that have evolved to deal with more state. Specifically, large vertical hierarchies. Which in turn results in an even stronger state evolving to regulate them, creating a positive feedback loop, until something breaks and everything falls apart, only to begin again.

I would also like to point out that these hierarchies are the result of a natural tendency of humans to cooperate (something something evolving in tribes that hunt and forage together, etc), combined with the advanced communications technologies that allow people to cooperate regardless of the distances between them. One reason why WW1 and especially WW2 were so much bloodier than anything before them and why the totalitarian states of the 20th and now 21st century as much more overwhelming and able to exercise much tighter control over their subjects is just that, the advent of instantaneous communications.

This is also the weak spot of these organisations. People imagine fighting the oppressive government with Molotovs and burning tires, but that's pure mental retardation and giving jobs to journalists who would cover your suffering as you are relentlessly beaten into submission. Wanna do some real damage? Get into your local bureaucrat's DMs and send some quality shitposting.

@newt
Well, yeah, kinda – but it's not some coincidence that had created this feedback loop which kept reproducing itself ever since. I think in extreme conditions hierarchies are more efficient and more resilient. And you can "fight the state with molotovs" when the state is weak — in other words perfectly balanced, incapable of defending itself when people don't want it. Problem is — those who take over might be even worse, and might enforce stronger state.
@theorytoe @joey

@m0xee @theorytoe @joey the hierarchies are perfectly suited to control their subjects. This is what they have evolved for. It's not some coincidence, it's the story of the tower of Babel all over again. I think, those ancients who wrote it were trying to tell us something...

@newt
Making up languages is good for horizontal societies? 🤔

@theorytoe @joey