I totally agree. I mean, for me, Direct Democracy is just another word for Daoism, right? Spiritual Daoism and not religious Daoism. Which is my main belief system when I grew up. And then later on, I find that there are branches of early anarchism that sounded exactly the same as Daoism. But I use the term ‘conservative anarchism’ not just to have some fun in bringing polar opposites together, but also to highlight the fact that you do not need to violently disrupt an existing system, if you can show that an older system can interoperate with a newer system that gradually makes the old one obsolete. This is the Buckminster Fuller insight, right? That’s the ‘trim tab’ insight. And I think this kind of ‘trim tabs’ are easier and easier to make now that with digital tools, we can find fellow ‘trim tabs’ simply by you writing the email to me and then we have this conversation.

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