You don’t.
Just live your life. If you don’t want to be atomized, don’t be.
By fighting the suburbs and car dependency.
By getting involved in and promoting mutual aid networks and the gift economy.
By normalizing multigenerational households, communes, and public events that involve people dining together.
By regulating technology and social media to disincentivize dark patterns.
With pronatalist policies like free preschool, subsidies for first-time homebuyers, strong family leave practices, and abolishing DST.
If the US were a socialist country (like in the alternate history story “Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline” (wiki here) which is about a socialist US), would those rules be in place?
Some yes, others no. But I’m not writing about alternate history, I’m saying things that we can do to fix where we’re at now.
Silly OP, we’re all groups of atoms already!
Maybe just kill Marx?
/s
Things have a way of decentralizing over long enough periods of time. A recent example is computers. Once big mainframes to work stations to individual desktops to mobile windows that is found in every social class regardless of socioeconomics. A bigger one is religion. In Egypt, Byzantium, Teotihuacan, Kyoto - any religion starts as a centralized authority that is disseminated through the people and eventually form sects where each has their own version of the religion. Soon it becomes multi variable and divergent.
Resisting this decentralizing is to hold onto something which is unstoppable. Learn to love the atomization. The only true man made constant is that everything decentralizes.
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TaxesDecentralizeNot really. Like any organizational precept, that is a part of a larger continuum defined by a duality at its extremes.
The more centralized an organizational system is, the easier it is for decentralization to take hold, due to lack of adaptability and strict, but hackable, structure. The more decentralized it is, the more susceptible it becomes to people choosing to organize and centralize to outcompete.
Individually evaluated principles and aesthetics are the means to combine decentralization with organization. That makes manifesto and vibe critically important to adapting to the current situation.
