Building Beyond the Foundations Towards a Personal Utopia

Beyond the bare minumum, a niche within the "big tent". Can we jump straight to simply building the perfect utopiua? Not yet. There's some building that needs to be set up, filling in between the minimal foundations that everyone can agree on, and the perfect precise niche for one person.

Here, I'll talk about that "middle ground" between the two.

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Beyond Democracy
Voting (even wonderful advanced democracy, like I outline here) isn't best for every situation. Sometimes it's nice to have a personal choice without worrying about people outvoting you.

Think of a movie theater, and choosing a movie. Runs into trouble when there is only one screen. Not everyone can be satisfied at once. So here in the city, we have theaters with many theaters inside of them, and everyone gets to pick between the different options available, so that many more can be satisfied simultaneously, despite their conflicting preferences! This is somewhat analogous to Meta Utopia.

But, the very existence of this theater kind of depends on the context it's in. We didn't elect a fanatic government that forbids theaters or censors many movies.

Anyways, questions arise about what things we should decide by vote, and what we should get to choose. You wouldn't want to get these questions wrong. You don't want to end up with people who can choose to be above the law, or to have the law censor the harmless movies that you like.

Boundaries and Borders
The borders between countries aren't the only kind of boundaries imagineable. Personal boundaries are becoming a big deal, as they should be. Group membership or non-membership is another type of boundary (or, perhaps it's really the same type, not a different type?).

Boundaries can be used to create and separate different contexts. So it's a very basic concept that will be used a lot here.