So I'm going to try something. Don't know if here is the best place to do it, but I'll do a series of updates about a book I'm reading - " Inventing The Future, Postcapitalism and a World Without Work" by Nick Srnick and Alex Williams
But here's the thesis:
"...the argument of this book is that folk-political tendencies are mistaken. If complexity currently outstrips humanity's capacities to think and control, there are two options: one is to reduce complexity down to a human scale; the other is to expand humanity's capacities. We endorse the latter position."
Gotta say that I appreciate having 500 characters to work with in #mastodon. Even with 280 characters I had to truncate senetences on #twitter.
"Any #postcapitalist project will necessarily require the creation of new cognative maps, political narratives, technological interfaces, economic models, and mechanism of collective control to be able to marshal complex phenomena for the betterment of #humanity."
I appreciate the gusto. Hell yes, let's "expand humanity's capacities"!
I still think I need to better understand this concept of "folk-politics" since it seems to be the primary thing against which the book's philosophy stands opposed.
It seems to be:
- local as opposed to systemic thinking
- emotional, not logical decisionmaking
- small instead of large scale
But actually it seems to be summed up as "that thing that isn't ambitious enough as a poltical philosophy".
... or, "the status quo".
"More hierarchical organizational forms, such as parties or traditional union organizations, continued to entrench the predominant patriarchal and sexist social relations prevalent in the broader society."
I was going to make some sage commentary but I just looked at #mastodon's stock #emojis and all I can think to say is what on earth are these emojis? There's like, 30 of them and one of them is just a dude's face? 
"Considerable experimentation was therefore conducted to produce new organizational forms that could work against this social oppression. This included the use of consensus decision-making and horizontal debating strucures that would later come to worldwide fame with the #OccupyWallstreet movement."
Starting argument: current left-leaning politics is broken because of "folk politics" - the idea that people follow a political philosophy that is too focused on the individual instead of the collective, and more feeling than reasoning.
My first reaction is skepticism - yeah, this is human nature, it's not likely to change.