> I do say yes to the splitting. I imagine a great shattering, a dispersal and disintegration and coalescence, where people come together, not into nation-states, nor a one-world government, nor small isolated communes, but all of them and none of them at once: a state of overlapping, interconnected layers of organization and spheres of influence. We can combine our deeply local and regional pasts with our highly globalized present.
firstly, i love this
i want to highlight a social structure out of dawn of everything that facilitated this kind of thing - totemic groupings among indigenous societies of the eastern seaboard of turtle island - wherever you found bears, you found bear people, wherever you found eagles, you found eagle people, for these people, hunting or harming their totemic animal was anathema (though it may not have been for people other totems)
... but heres the cool part
when travelling to other places, they could find people of their totem even if they weren't of the same tribe. this facilitated a network of mutual aid between these peoples places to stay along their travels, and a means of connection
now, perhaps we are a long ways away from forming the kinds of connections with our non-human relatives for this exact form, but we may be able to connect under different totems more fit to our current circumstances and understanding of the world... i know not what this may look like, but the network these connections could provide may be indispensable to having a healthy decentralization
