small groups allow for better social control...the eskimos had a word for a guy that somebody would push off the ice when no one is looking LOL
I don't know, but my gut says that small groups arent conducive to scientific advancement...ALTHOUGH with decentralization of communications, knowledge should be able to be shared across nodes effectively
my other thought is that small groups arent quick enough to respond to the pyscho that does con large amounts of cults into following them.
either way, it comes down to a dominant culture
highly parallel, widely distributed, hugely redundant it may favorite thing.
it's also evolution in action.
centralization tends to die off under adverse conditions.
perhaps the psycho's you speak of are those conditions.
how many psychos in positions of centralized power?
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excellent point
probably most of em...at the very least narcissists...who for strange reason seems to be effective in leadership, if not necessarily doing anything USEFUL with that leadership
see, Obama
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yup..so we need to do our damndest to decentralize everything.
back in the stone age it was useful...
today it's harmful.
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as a counter tho, we had a very successful country through the 50s; basically a monoculture with high personal responsibility standards, so I do think that it is culture and the will to enforce standards that plays so much in maintaining those levels
otoh, power should indeed be decentralized as much as possible
so dunbar's number isnt wrong, and I agree with the idea that culture is more easily subverted once you get past the tribal number, but you can also look at ideas like historical cycles...hard times create hard men, etc etc
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