How to solve all the worlds political problems. Except not really.

I've been thinking of a new political system that would allow for maximum freedom and diversity, and solve the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Because that's what I do with my spare thinking time, apparently.

Basically, instead of nation-states, we should all form tribes. There should be one universal rule to the tribes: members can leave whenever they want, unless being sanctioned for breaking tribal law. There is only one pan-tribal authority, a Global Inter-Tribe Committee or something, that enforces the one rule, and makes sure each tribe gets enough basic resources. And that's that. Each tribe can do what the hell they want.

This way, every individual is living under laws they agree with, or at least laws they are apathetic towards. If a member doesn't like what his tribe is doing, he joins another tribe. If he doesn't like what any tribes are doing, he starts his own tribe. It goes without saying that this is a drastically different situation to now, where the politically concerned heavily compromise their beliefs in order to join the biggest club of politicians they can, in order to have some vague hope of slightly altering the way their country is run.  

Because political opinion is so diverse, we would in theory end up with countless small tribes rather than a few big ones- rather like the Greek poleis, but without the strict notion of citizenship. This way, the balance of power is practically perfect- if one tribe or even the GITC tries to take over, the other tribes will have more than enough collective power to subdue them without too much hassle.

In my head, the plan is to have multiple tribes occupying the same space/very close together spaces (like, different districts of a single city close), so that you have people from five, ten different tribes drinking the the same bars and going to the same schools. This would lead to greater unity than ever between people of different political and ideological dispositions, because Mrs X would be exposed to Mr Y's opinion, while knowing that said opinion would not affect her life in any way unless she wanted it too, so she would have no need to feel "threatened" by his views.

And then the world would be perfect.

Yes, I know this is impractical and/or logically impossible. I'm just hypothesising. It's fun. You should try it some time.

Ciao!