Interesting!
Dunbar's number is often what I come back to when I look at human interactions within society.
Our human impulses - whether we consider them "good" or "bad" - make sense within a small, interdependent group. Many (most?) are a disaster when applied at the scale of a nation.
Absolutely!! How on earth could we think that having ONE person or even a group (or government) have authority over MILLIONS, particularly when we see that there are multitudes of sub-cultures even within a dominant culture? It's asinine. We'd be better off with bioregional governance hubs that allow communities to self-govern. Buuuut that would require people to truly take responsibility for themselves, and most current systems have allowed/incentivized people to outsource their responsibility. So we have to rebuild our own skills in decision-making, responsibility-taking, and most importantly sovereignty.
