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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

His argument for most of the essay is essentially “collective activity means cooperation, and in order to cooperate you must, at some point submit to the will of the others.”

What he actually says is that any complex activity requires coordination, and central coordination mechanisms are necessary to accomplish that. This is the same reason why large animals evolve things like nervous systems and brains. The fact that people have trouble understanding the need for coordination is depressing beyond belief.