Civilians are planning economic cooperation — an industrial zone to provide thousands of jobs, mostly to Palestinians, and another involving organic produce grown by Palestinians and marketed in Europe by Israelis. Ministers from both governments have been visiting regularly, often joined by top international officials. Israeli Arabs are playing a key role.The aim is to stand conventional wisdom on its head. Instead of a shaky negotiated peace treaty imposing coexistence from the top down, a bottom-up set of relationships that lock the two societies together should, proponents argue, lead to a real two-state solution.
'Bottom Up' set of relationships being used to create 'synergies' between two conflicting sides? Letting citizens using economics and independent negotiation to resolve the problems politicians are not?
With the internet, we can have citizens in all nations doing this right now. Everyday, more and more of us are realizing that politicians and government is the least effective methodology for problem solving.
Government is not to be overthrown, it is to be ignored as irrelevant.
3 comments:
fantastic. you're a social anarchist, like myself.
I'm not a fan of anarchism/libertarianism. I think it gives people far too much credit - even more than Marxism does.
A human community without rulers cannot exist. If we remove government, people will still be ruled by other people - but the new rulers will be the physically and mentally strong. Brute strength will be the currency of power, and Charles Darwin will rule with an iron fist.
But even that "Lord of the Flies" situation will not persist too long. Before we know it, the strong will organize and re-create governments - but these new governments will make little pretense of serving the common people. We will end up worse than we started off. Perhaps they will call the new governments "corporations."
To be successful and humane, anarchism/libertarianism would require the creation of a "New Man" more ambitious than the wildest dreams of Marx. It is an inferior Utopian idea in terms of realism and workability.
I would not say that I was an anarchist, as I do believe in having an established order. I think that a community or natural social network given the right tools,however, can produce a more effective administrative system than what government currently is and I think this is the next big wave to come and hit us, we are going to begin outcompeting gov institutions online by providing more efficient administrative systems.
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