Society
One role that those who aspire to government think they have a mandate to do is design society in line with their own way of thinking. This is the road to totalitarianism, and totalitarianism has a very bad track record historically.
What these people think is that everyone would just follow the rules they lay down everything will be perfect and thus murdering millions of people is a small price to pay for this utopia.
One would have thought that after centuries of this mode of government the human race would have learnt.
This section describes how Smallism allows individuals, families, communities, cities, county and country to use the power of the crowd, or the power of evolution or the power of statistics depending on your preference to allow evolution, to allow bad ideas to die and good ideas to thrive.
Being that smallism starts at the individual and works up to a national level the totalitarians that are bound to rise are limited in their scope and can never achieve the power they crave.
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Taking government out of education
Given that the nature of education has changed because of the ubiquity of the internet, the political influences within the state education system, and the range of specialist subjects available, which have grown in…
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Electricity Distribution in Findhorn, Scotland
In 2009, the residents of the small village of Findhorn in Scotland took over their local electricity distribution network after the previous operator, Scottish and Southern Energy, decided to sell it. The distribution…
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Post Office in Somerset, UK
In 2012, the residents of the small village of Mells in Somerset, England, took over their local post office after the Royal Mail announced plans to close it due to budget cuts. The post office had been a vital…
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Swimming pool in Scotland
In 2015, the residents of the small town of Cumnock in Scotland took over their local swimming pool after the local council announced plans to close it due to budget cuts. The swimming pool had been a popular community…
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Water Management in Northwood, New Hampshire.
In 2018, the residents of the small town of Northwood, New Hampshire, took over their local water system after years of problems with the privately-owned utility. The utility had been owned by a series of out-of-state…
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A library in Bristol, UK
The residents of Bristol, England, took over their local library in 2016 after the Bristol City Council announced plans to close several libraries due to budget cuts. The residents formed a community group called the…
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Introducing the Smallism Ward
Notes: As this website is UK based the term ‘ward’ is used to describe a small community. Small as-in Smallism. Many parts are stronger than the sum of the whole - hence the geodesic dome as our logo. This section will…
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Up the workers: Where Marx went wrong
When we start examining incentives of the workers’ ownership of the means of production we find that theory is exactly in line with the results of what is called ‘public ownership’ through unionised industries. For…