I assure you what we have today is not “better”, for any definition of better.
In fact if I can remember in my own lifetime I was freer before the internet than after it, this proves times before the industrial revolution were even freer, because of the lack of overarching control structures facilitated by technological means.
The problem is belief in “systems utopianism”, same as communism, no system will solve freedom. There is no utopia in this world. We keep getting blinded by ideologies that disregard reality and place themselves as objects of worship. “If only we can all get along”, “if only all things were privately owned by people of goodwill”… it’s naive in that regard, but maybe it’s better to just call it wrong, because the presuppositions are false.
No, they aren’t. Even during the Industrial Revolution, people had fewer freedoms, especially fewer positive freedoms, which are important as well.
But I really don’t know what you mean by the term utopianism. Building a small community without a government isn’t a utopia. Applying that idea globally might be but that’s exactly why I’m open to a world with different approaches. Some societies could have a government, others could live without any control. I don’t see why this shouldn’t work.
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Horses and lancets make for overarching control structures just fine.
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