Thread by @viziandrei

#Localism/Curated Arguments (Thread):

1/ "You understand what is going on in your neighbourhood better than what is going on in your city; which you understand better than what is going on in your state; better than what is going on in your country; better than what is going on across the globe." ~ @normonics

2/ "Politics is not scale-free. One can be Libertarian at the federal level; Republican at the state level; Democrat at the county level; Socialist within the commune; Communist at the family level." ~ @nntaleb

3/ "Central governments are immune to Second-Order Effects (they are too far from them in both the temporal & social dimensions); but locals cannot escape them. Hence, locals are more incentivized to care about them, even; or rather especially; unconsciously." ~ @DellAnnaLuca

4/ "Too many people's mental model: We shall offer massive amounts of cash to bureaucrats who cannot de facto be held accountable; and let them decide what to do with them opaquely." ~ @normonics

5/ The best functioning democracies are the smallest, both in scope and scale. Smaller democracies of like-minded citizens can achieve consensus faster & build smaller (thus more efficient) bureaucracies to execute on that consensus." ~ @mathieuhelie

6/ "The distant future is small free cities with drone armies and skill-based immigration policies, surrounded by a sea of failed socialist states." ~ @naval