Comment on How does one fight the atomization of society, as Marx foretold years ago?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Things have a way of decentralizing over long enough periods of time. A recent example is computers. Once big mainframes to work stations to individual desktops to mobile windows that is found in every social class regardless of socioeconomics. A bigger one is religion. In Egypt, Byzantium, Teotihuacan, Kyoto - any religion starts as a centralized authority that is disseminated through the people and eventually form sects where each has their own version of the religion. Soon it becomes multi variable and divergent.
Resisting this decentralizing is to hold onto something which is unstoppable. Learn to love the atomization. The only true man made constant is that everything decentralizes.
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bastion@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Not really. Like any organizational precept, that is a part of a larger continuum defined by a duality at its extremes.
The more centralized an organizational system is, the easier it is for decentralization to take hold, due to lack of adaptability and strict, but hackable, structure. The more decentralized it is, the more susceptible it becomes to people choosing to organize and centralize to outcompete.
Individually evaluated principles and aesthetics are the means to combine decentralization with organization.