Once again, I completely agree with half of what you say- and of the other half that I disagree with, half of that I WISH were true.
You and I and a lot of other people (Especially CPFers
)ARE capable of governing ourselves, living in harmony and prospering without harming anyone else, but most people are not.
Yes, it is worse today than it was a hundred years ago (or even 30) and you can blame a lot of it on our public education system. But it is still a pipe-dream.
Like Harrkev said about communism one thing keeps that as well as your system from working:
human nature. and no one is ever going to be able to change that enough to make either system work without destroying what it means to be human. (That could have been said better, but I can't think of how right now.)
I understand the point that greed makes the "world go round", although I'd modify it a bit, Greed is the extreme point in that spectrum and it is the point where self-interest becomes counterproductive. Self-interest and the profit motive is "what makes the world go round", but greed takes it a step too far and people start getting hurt, and in the long run, the greedy are worse off than they would have been if they sopped at mere self interest. (again, I wasn't able to say that as well as I wanted).
But even if you were able to take greed out of the equation, neither the "unanimous consent system" nor communism are going to work,
ever. There will always be power-hungry people who may be "benevolent dictators" but will still try to force their ideas on the rest of the community.
Take a small community that one would think would live in harmony: an exclusive real-estate development with a "home-owners association" that lays out every single rule of the community before you can purchase the property; You would think that that system would work because it is a group of like-minded people voluntarily setting their own rules and regulations.
No way, Jose; I have NEVER seen one of these (and I've seen a lot of them) things that wasn't full of strife . Say you go along with them happily for years, then suddenly you get an interest in ham-radio. Well, you are out of luck, because ham radio antennas are forbidden.
Ok, you can live with that, maybe you are rich enough to build a ham shack out in the sticks to satisfy your new hobby. Then something horrible happens; your 37 year old child and his spouse suddenly leave you two orphaned grandchildren to care for. Nope, not here, because minors are not allowed to be in the development for more than 48 hours.
Nope, as much as I'd like it to, your system is never going to be possible here on earth. It has failed every time it has been tried, just like communism. Even the attemps to do it by buying an island or building a floating city in international waters by people who have signed the "Smith pledge" (or something similar) have fallen apart due to internal squabbling.
I hope this is my last word on the subject.....