RE: That's not censorship
Perhaps a bit of the difference between us might be resolved, as I note what seems to be a misunderstanding of my conception of the technological development and concomitant increase of personal agency ongoing.
"You envision a future, derived from this pernicious system..."
No. Prior to the advent of states, centralization of wealth and power was far less potential, as parasitization was also, and folks retained their own to far greater degree. History has been both deliberately obfuscated regarding such societies, and otherwise largely lost from our purview, so we can know little of societies largely free from parasitization that have previously existed. We can be certain they did, because parasitism depends on numbers, and many societies existed which did not concentrate nominal numbers to support parasites, if for no other reason (and I can think of many, besides).
After the industrial revolution, centralization of wealth greatly increased, facilitated by greater wealth withal, as the increase in technology delivered to ordinary and overlord alike more and better goods and services, except as inequity and corruption continued to debase the ordinary to favor overlords.
While continued advance and development of technology is the basis for my predictions, it is not based upon mercantilism, but rather upon the crafting society that pre-existed the industrial revolution, because that is the production, distribution, and wealth creation mechanism it most resembles. It's just a vastly improved wealth of goods and services than handwork makes possible. Security technology prevents the parasitism that centralized states have heretofore committed, because WMDs aren't suitable to making slaves obey. They can only eliminate them, and with them the potential profitable parasitization. Weapons wielded by individuals are necessary to subdue and force their victims to obey, and as security technology has evolved it has become impossible to such a gang of thugs to survive nominal defenses and even get within range to deploy their weaponry. Firearms are 1000 year old technology, and there is a reason that they are how wars are fought, and how police gangs are armed. It's the peak enslaving tech that is possible.
More advanced personal arms utterly preclude gangs of thugs, and through various institutional mechanisms, such as censorship, understanding of such tech has been concealed. The advent of personal means of production enables folks to not only make them themselves, but to invent them. Clearly overlords had no interest in even allowing such tech to eventuate, as it destroys their ability to parasitize their victims, much less mass produce it.
I won't go into much detail here, but with a moat of microwave ovens around my home, no unwelcome persons would overstay their welcome, nor ever approach without my assent. Firearms have been obsolete for a long time, and I cannot count other security mechanisms that preclude their utility by thugs. Today we buy all our microwaves from merchants, and they don't sell moats of them.
Free men will make moats of them, and far better mechanisms to ensure their security, and it will be impossible to project force as a result.
It is not ordinary folks that have effected such antisocial measures as Enclosure, or The Clearances of medieval Scotland, or war. It is overlords empowered by those merchant scum we both revile. Ordinary folk in communities I have been part of tend to be pretty good neighbors to each other - where none employ nepotic connections to overlords.
It is overlords and merchant scum that rape this planet, society itself, and who will never debase the breadth of the universe similarly, because they will not command hordes of hapless slaves to do it. Free men working together have no interest in such rapine, except when availed of the ability to parasitize their peers and thereby become their overlords.
Decentralization is the end of such parasitization, and of the very way of life vampires undertake. I don't see decentralization as derived from centralization, but the end of it, and a restoration of the natural relationships between individuals in society, nature, and whatever gods may be.
Freedom is our natural state. Slavery is the hell that destroys the soul.
How did the "individuals" come to own property? How did the muck define boundaries? How did the people even assign value to creation around them for "fair" exchange? It is not the crown and the central government that are parasites, but the humanist muck that refuse to render their dues owed to the state, while enjoying, no demanding, the benefits provided by the state. Those who prattle about "freedom," "voluntarism," "human rights" are no better than squatters claiming their previleges to some public space as their private domain. What does man truly own anything, when his entire being is borrowed?
You write of "individuals" carving out a portion of creation and "defending" said arbitrary boundary with weapons and force; then what of the others "rights" to use of the said piece of creation? By what legitimacy do your set of "individuals" claim priority rights to use of creation over another set? There are several million Central and South American individuals who challenge the legitimacy of the USA in assigning arbitrary limits to the "rights" of movement into and out of the sociopolitical entity known as USA. Will you also argue that the "parasitic" US government and citizens desist in border enforcement?
Humanism is born from the hubris of mercantile scum and secomd-rate nobility in their ignorant rebellion against their betters. In their inadequacy, these rebel scum sowed the seeds of not only their extinction, but of the entire human race. The blood orgies of the French Revolution, the French Commune, the Communist Internationalism, and capitalist rape all stem from the ignorant arrogance of base-born merchant scum who dare imagine themselves equal to God, demanding "rights" from the Universe existing beyond their pitiful ken. All the miseries and horrors of the so-called "modern" era stem from men losing faith and principles. Now men only value rebellion, power, egotism, and crass desires. Rather than embracing their station and purpose, men rebel against nature, community, society, and God, in the guise of "freedom" and "rights." Remained unchecked, humanism, as the true parasite that have infected modern man's soul, will affect the extinction of man.
People able to secure property exercise ownership. Rational societies support mechanisms allowing reasonable ownership, not unbalanced feudal systems. Value is a natural metric assigned by individuals undertaking trade to goods and services they find desirable, and involves various aspects such as scarcity, labor cost, and etc.
Not rocket science bro.
What does this even mean?
We apparently agree on the scumminess of mercantilism, yet you keep trying to ignore that H. sapiens are actual beings that aren't either born workers or overlords. We're not some kind of eusocial insect born into roles. Each of us pops out and is raised with equal allegiance to others and rights to live - except as corruption and violence is deployed to subjugate some and elevate others, generally effected by psychologically diseased and broken sociopaths incapable of normal socialization.
Despite politics, physics makes the rules that determine what power individuals can possess, and physics is enabling individuals to provide luxury quality wealth and security that will make all politics irrelevant. It's just what it is. It doesn't care if you like it, or if I don't.
Overlords are just violent plebs, and soon they'll be subject to evolutionary forces if they are incapable of normal socialization. This is the future our sons will inherit. Since human prosperity and happiness will be greatly increased, I reckon that's a good thing.
Those who are able to "secure" property exercise "ownership." Who do you think "secures" a portion of creation for your precious "individuals" to use as property, but the crown and the state? You defend the non-existing "rights" of the muck, that did not shed blood to seize the land, that did not found political infrastructure to establish order, that use coinage struck by the crown to measure the value of his surrounding, or even organize faith to give meaning to his purposeless life.
Rational humans, and rational societies, will reject the ludicrous premises of humanism and "human rights." Humanists that prattle of "freedom" and "tyranny" are no better than ignorant thieves that can not even recognize the concept of theft. Rather than expressing gratitude for previleges the state grants, the humanist muck denounce his benefectors, demanding additional concessions, imaginging himself a god. Those that prattle of "freedom" are truly shameless.
The infection of humanism must be purged from the collective sum of human consciousness, if humanity is to survive as a species. Those that peddle "freedom" are leading humanity into racial suicide.
Americans wrested property from the Crown for themselves. Somehow we now have got saddled with a state that wrests our property from us, but that will soon be rectified, as I reiterate. Free men once were the sole title holders, or claimants thereto, of all the world. It has not been stolen by them, but from them, and the thieves you speak of are the cabal of banksters and sociopaths that wield institutions and government as weapons against free men. It is not the free men of the world that are the beneficiaries of gangs of thugs, but the thugs that parasitize the essence of their prey.
The epithets and injury you hurl at free men inure instead to their predators. It is they that are muck, inhuman, and incapable of normal socialization, rapt in their own minds with themselves, wrapped up and sealed away from normal life, deprived of love, honor, or joy. It is inhumanism, corporate rule, institutional malignancy that deprives mankind of it's full potency, and it is stolen by beasts for the quivering of a pulsating gland. Animals, devoid of humanity, cursed to love and admire only themselves, depraved and feotid, they deprive us of our wont, of our will to create, to prosper, and to leave a legacy of primacy to our posterity - but not for long.
Soon the profiteering will end. The parasites will shrivel and faint with pangs of hunger, their feast over. No more will we need to slave for them to attain to the goods we need to thrive. No longer will our minds be battered and scarred from their arcane, twisted torments. We wake, like a fever victim, to our bemusement and begin to grasp our surroundings; to see the possibilities before us, our duty, and our right to attain.
I cannot say how much longer it will last, this savage condition of impotence we have succumbed to, but the sacrifice of centuries building and discovering within the constraints imposed on us by rude technology have been worth it; will be worth it to our sons. They will work to make the goods of the new age, and they will work for themselves, at home. AI will arise on a million fronts and deliver to each the skill of thousands of experts. Not AI owned by Google, or the cabal, but AI in little Dapps, like Excel, or Audacity. We will print our hardware and trust it. No more back doors. We will teach our sons the truth. No more indoctrination. We will set them free so we can rule ourselves. No more overlords.
Soon, working together with our personal means of manufacturing every good we can invent, we will sort the stars out of the vacuum, and hitherto we'll go. Nevermore will the overseers lash, the spittle of the torturer, or the screams of the innocent taken by them as would possess them like chattel, disgrace the hides of free men, and that sacred burden and treasure, free society, will journey wherever they will take it at their sole option.
It doesn't matter that you prefer to rule the world. The world will not be ruled, and you will be just another pleb. Just like me. Just like the worst or best man in the world. You will be free. Prepare to live life you love.
Most of the colonists were loyal to the Crown, only a minority led by second-rate aristocracy and smuggler mafia rebelled against their rightful masters. The only reason for the 'Muricans worshipping "free" speech of the "press" is because all the propaganda outlets in the Colonies were in the hands of the rebel leaders. It was not the "free" men who rebelled against their betters, but second-rate malcontents grasping at that which is beyond their ken. It is not at all surprising that the Colonies experienced economic collapse only a couple of years after their ill-conceived rebellion. If the 'Muricans did not reorganise their government into a more centralised authority, in order to steal indigenous land, the rebellion would have ended with the colonists returning back to His Majesty King George the Third.
There is no such a thing as "free" man. It is a meaningless drivel the merchant scum use to manipulate the muck into action contrary to their own self-interests. Shiny new baubles will not bring-forth garden of Eden, when men are displaced in their thought and action by edemic rebelliousness, malcontent, ingratitude, and hubris. Men need to be governed; the anarchy, for which you desire and pray, will ensure the extinction of the human race. The miseries of the human race were not engendered by the orderly governance according to natural and divine law, but by the ignorant rebellion of the humanist muck.
The entirety of the complete fallacy and self-contradiction of your position is encapsulated in that statement. If men need to be governed, then men cannot govern.
You further only grasp that new tech is new, and not that it delivers power. It is power that matters, and physics is the source of what will or will not be. What will be is the power to ignore them as would parasitize, and regardless of fantasies of ruling hapless victims you seem obsessed by, in the fullness of time such fantasies will prove wastes of time, because of the fact of power.
They cannot be subject to overlords much longer, and then our true nature as inventors, explorers, and good friends and neighbors will be fulfilled and endure forevermore. While the fate of incompetent parasites incapable of meeting their own needs, of joining as equals in free society, will be sad, it will not impede the grand and joyous adventure mankind will undertake. Abandon your impotent fantasies, and join the competent self-fulfilled men that will gain the universe as their possession.
You write of power, yet it seems that you do not quite understand the meaning of that concept. The only power that is of any consequence is the ability to inflict death amd destruction. If you think a collection of fragmented, leaderless, ignorant muck trusting in some miracle bauble can rebel against the power of the state to unleash hell, then I advise you to reconsider.
What you and your "free" men advocate is rebellion; in rebellion, the only quality that matters is the capacity to kill, while staring your opponent in his eyes, as he begs for mercy. Can your "free" men run over humans with tanks in the morning and then sit down for an afternoon tea? Can your freedom fighters fire weapons upon women and children and then settle down comfortably for an afternoon nap? Can your information warriors bayonet pregnant women and then enjoy a nice dinner? The humanist rebellious muck ought to be grateful that their mercantile masters and populist whores are loathed to unleash the state killers upon their rebellious heads.
There are no "hapless" victims. There are those who rule and those who serve. The fact of power difference between master and slave ought to restrain any rebellious thoughts and prattle of "freedom." The true nature of men is that they are born into class and status, within which limits men serve their society and community. The constant malcontent of humanism that delude men into reaching beyond their ken will be the doom of mankind.
Again, you fail to grasp the facts. Absent creation, there is nothing to destroy. The ability to create is actual power. This failure to ascertain the reality of the universe is the basis for the rest of your misunderstanding.
Particularly this. All rule, and all serve. Neither the abject captive tormented to gain obedience fails to rule, nor the overlord commanding the torturer fails to serve, even if only themselves.
Until you grasp the factual reality extant, we will be unable to attain to rational debate on these matters. Can I force you to accept facts?
No - and this proves my point. You are free to serve whom you will. You always will be, and nothing can change that fact. When thugs with tanks can no longer ferry armed men to your door to persuade you to comply because you have built and are willing to use nominal security to prevent their approach, they will be useless to their masters.
All that prevents that security is your failure to effect it.
That's on you, and everyone, today. Most people have no idea they can be free in this way right now, but no censorship can keep this a secret forever. Everyone will choose, and choosing to be chattel will create evolutionary forces that favor those choosing freedom. Physics is the law, and the universe suffers no criminals to escape it's decrees.
The feeble wishes of sociopaths will become handicaps, and the builders of civilization will create a free world. Nothing can change this but the extinction of humanity. The power to serve yourself by creating a prosperous future is in your hands.
You will do you. Prosperity or poverty is yours to choose.
You are free.