| It is interesting that people like Jefferson were anti-capitalism, anti-urban, and believed in small isolated agrarian units.
That's a model that doesn't work in a modern society. But...
You will find the most open, free, and effective societies in places like the Amazon rainforest.
- Everybody gets to run around naked and generally enjoy life.
The larger your society gets, the more complicated the rules have to be. The very moment you go beyond the limit of personal acquaintances (about 150 people), you're going to need an organized system.
It needs to account for, at that point, diversity of subcultures, economics, governance, and so on... |