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RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Alas, these are mostly about fantasies of individual self-reliance, which when tried by normal people in real life lead to atomization and greater, not lesser, reliance on strangers.Reducing reliance on strangers requires more and better interactions between people who have shared customs, shared understandings, who know each other well, and thus are capable of considerably better communications than occur between strangers.First-hand accounts of old European village life (for t ...