RE: A Few Random Thoughts on Institutions, Collectivism, etc.
Collectivism is the enemy of freedom. As sad as it may be to folks insisting we must group together under a leader to defend freedom, doing so is exactly compromising freedom. I don't disagree that liberalism is the enemy of freedom, but the USG is a neoliberal institution, and therefore functionally destroys freedom.
Fortunately, physics is what it is, and cannot be amended, banned, or restricted to approved personnel. People will always learn physical processes, and the result of that investigation is technology. Since the pointy stick, technological advance has always increased decentralization, increasing the power of individuals versus institutions. There is a lag time during which tech disseminates, and this is why centralization has grown.
Centralization has peaked. As tech continues to advance, individuals increasingly become able to produce their own goods and services, including advanced weaponry. The more tech advances, the faster it advances, disperses, and increases the power of individuals. Firearms are 1000 year old tech. Why is it the goto weaponry for armed thugs projecting institutional force? Because it's the optimal level of technology for the purpose. Vastly better security tech has long existed, but institutions don't tell you about it, and don't sell it to you.
Today individual means of production have enabled individuals to manufacture such security tech themselves. They don't have to buy it at Walmart. Political power, collectivism, depends on armed thugs projecting institutional force. There is no force of armed thugs that can project force through a microwave moat. Meatsacks are too fragile. There is no limit to the improved security tech presently able to be manufactured by individuals, and as this technological ability to produce personal goods and services burgeons, every possible security mechanism will be deployed across the geographical regions collectives/institutions seek to control.
Since the lag between invention and dispersal becomes shorter the more advanced tech becomes, we have already passed peak centralization, and now decentralization and freedom are on the rise. This is why government indoctrination (public school) and propaganda (the media) have suddenly become almost completely deranged in the effort to keep people so foolish they do not act rationally and increase their power. It is the last gasp of desperate overlords to maintain institutional power. The eventual elimination of political power is inevitable. The only thing that can prevent it is the extinction of the human species. Even bombing us literally back into the stone age will only reset the clock, and the development will begin again. Doing so will destroy the quality of life of the overlords, and reduce them to lives brutish and savage, because the technological marvels that deliver them their amazing luxury depend on the technology they will have destroyed.
The important takeaway from these facts is that we don't need to collectivize to destroy collectivism. Doing so only subjects us to it. What we need to do is adopt the most advanced individualized means of production suitable to our condition and capability, and use it as we see fit. It will take time and effort. Nothing is free or easy that is worth doing.
Eventually, we will be free, not because we adopt the means of our oppressors, but because we don't. The means justify the ends.
Thanks!
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