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Imagine a world of millions of beautiful cultures existing in parallel, where everyone is governed as they would like to be. There is no one right answer to the question, "How should we live?" Let us recognize that fact, dispense with the conflict, and allow groups to go their own separate ways.
Imagine a world where everyone is governed as they would like to be.
Imagine a world of millions of beautiful cultures existing in parallel.
Imagine a town where, when you walk out your front door and see a stranger, you feel he is your brother in spirit.
There is no single right answer to the question, "How should we live?" Let us recognize that fact, dispense with the conflict, and allow groups to go their own separate ways.
Patchwork is a statehood model which emphasizes local governance and exit rights as a replacement for the current nation-state paradigm. This community is a home for discussion of the patchwork concept, whether its advantages and disadvantages, different methods for ruling patches, or routes for transitioning to patchwork in the 21st century.
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I agree that the anti-thesis to liberalism is a private form of government that is ruled by the a sovereign and has the manpower to justify itself. But I’m pretty convinced that patchwork societies will rise and the ones that advance the fastest will dominate the other societies. These societies will eventually come into conflict and as populations grow requiring territory to expand. A trend of militaristic industrialism will expand to the point where it ends up centralizing market structures under its wing gravitating towards a neo-absolutism. Recreating a corporate-like empire-like structure rather than a bunch of small local federations.
big fat balls
Patchwork is a hypothetical model of statehood which emphasizes local governance and exit rights as a replacement for the current nation-state paradigm. This system has been reinvented many times under many names by many authors from diverse backgrounds: de Puydt's Panarchy; Nozick's Meta-Utopia; Nassim Taleb's fractal localism. Its present name is inherited from the blog Unqualified Reservations in 2008. Here are three introductions to the idea from three very different political backgrounds:
Reactionary/monarchist Curtis Yarvin's Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century
Liberal/libertarian Scott Alexander's Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
Leftist/accelerationist Xenogothic's Patchwork 101 and Patchwork from the Left
This community is intended to be a home to discussion of the patchwork concept, whether its advantages and disadvantages, different methods for ruling patches, or routes for transitioning to patchwork in the 21st century.