RE: Programmed and Molded to be Cogs in the Machine
Comprehensive and deep. Your writings require special attention and mood. One of the things that you mentioned are rulers and the system. Personally I don't think that there is a rulers and a masterplan for the society that we live in. There is people higher on the lader who want to stay there and protect the system that allows them to get there, and people climbing. People have tendencie to think there is a ruler and masterplan becouse in a way this gives them security. Maybe at some level there are rulers and plans but not in a way that everbody imagens. The world is very haotic. On the other hand there is a SYSTEM for sure. And we can work to make it better. But no matter what the system is, we will still need public goods like roads, schools and education. We need to provide for this collectively.
People in an area can pay for it through contracts to get services, not coerced through taxation to find things they don't want or don't use.