Life is organized into hierarchies of independent life forms working together. A society is at its best when its people work independently in groups, however, collaborate to achieve a goal.

"One of the ways to gain wisdom is to study nature. In nature you don’t see individual cells growing to the size of an elephant. Instead cell size is limited and multiple cells cooperate to create larger organisms.

Like cells, you don’t see elephants getting bigger and bigger; you see herds of elephants. Furthermore, you don’t see just one species of animal you see millions or billions. Life is organized into hierarchies of independent life forms working together. Any cell that grows unrestrained will starve because the ratio of the cell membrane to interior volume shrinks and it can’t get enough food in or waste out. Animals that grow too big die for similar weight and energy density reasons.

Likewise, societies of people that grow too big are not sustainable by nature. If we want to build a sustainable human civilization then it should be composed of independent communities which are themselves composed of independent subcommunities. In this way, errors are localized and systems are redundant. Your body can tolerate the corruption of some cells; a community can survive the corruption of some people; a state can survive the corruption of some counties; and the world can survive the corruption of some states. However, if the world is comprised of a single state then the people cannot survive its corruption. Individual corruption is inevitable, which is why redundancy and diversity of communities are critical to the evolutionary success of the human species.

The organization of people into an indivisible government limits the diversity of thinking and makes all of society susceptible to the same pathogens. It is like a mono-culture farm; a single disease will kill everything. Large mono-culture governments will be governed by fallible humans who can and will mandate one size fits all solutions. These governments are unable to adapt to the changing natural environment and tend to over-specialize for the status quo. When something changes, it is game over."

Author: Daniel Larimer

Source: https://moreequalanimals.com/assets/MoreEqualAnimals-1.15.2021.pdf