Go ahead. You will be very impoverished compared to those who leverage the specialization and cooperation.
You will produce everything yourself from raw resources, dig up your own ore, build your own smelters, etc. And forget 3D printing, because you want to be disconnected from knowledge.
You want to go back to a caveman? That is what you are saying. I hope you realize.
More like smaller societies physically disconnected, not each on his own. Culture/Art you know is an oppressive beast and a topic untouched yet. Knowledge isn't everything.
I am talking everyone can connect to everyone without a bastard middle man.
We have to get rid of centralized exchange. We move to P2P, etc..
Each person's work is their own. No one takes a transaction fee or cut of the action!
Maybe everyone talking to everyone is not optimal. Maybe some Ideas should never meet.
Why work anyway, lets all get a hobby or something. Not everything is about economy, production, transaction
Rome's collapse was political, cultural and scientific stagnation after the initial breakthroughs that made them an empire.
Greece collapse was as ever the internal strife, we worship Eris.
You talking effects. I was talking cause. The cause was as always centralization of power, and too much debt.
I was thinking the same about your post,
anyway Greece never had centralization until 19 century. You could say that the city states were a token of decentralized world