The sovereign individual: how to survive and thrive during the collapse of the welfare state epub10/20/2023 ![]() Resistance, though, even as the contradictions play out, is to be expected. A long multicultural human history of reorganizing to adapt to environmental conditions bodes well. Re-organizing to counter this tendency and institutionalizing sufficiency requires imaginative politics. From a natural resources perspective defining features of the state form are concentration and surplus both of which tend to excess and require endless frontiers. A prospective project of effecting fundamental social change argues that sufficiency must be applied to the state. But if the encompassing social structure, namely, the state, is still organized around expansionist principles like efficiency and growth, the outcome will be the same-excess, the exceeding of regenerative capacities biophysical and social, local to global. ![]() Sufficiency as a social organizing principle can be applied to individuals, organizations, and economies. ![]() ![]()
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