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Seems Kropotkin was always doomed to be dubbed a "revolutionary" (in the negative sense) purely by dint of his observations. Humans don't live "in nature". We live within systems we build. The cooperative struggle against a hostile environment naturally becomes one against the incumbent system [1]. The system therefore naturally mobilises to disrupt cooperation, to divide and disorient. And therein lies the paradox of digital communication, that the more we are connected - via the system - the more we are divided.

[1] worth comparing to William James' "Moral equivalent of war"




> And therein lies the paradox of digital communication, that the more we are connected - via the system - the more we are divided.

Its only because people are easily losing the sight what's important when the establishment manipulates them using emotional triggers. From nationalism to religion, from social issues to pop culture, everything is used to take people's attention away from economic issues.




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