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RE: Anarchy Misunderstood

in #anarchy5 years ago (edited)

I strongly agree with almost all you've said here. The following I do not.

"The psychological effects of power always result in corruption even if good people with good intentions are elected"

Rather than postulating the power corrupts, I note that it is demonstrably factual that the corrupt seek power. Since but few people aren't somewhat corrupt, when marginally corrupt people find themselves in positions of power, they more strongly effect corruption. It's a chicken and egg thing.

What people say and what they really intend aren't utterly identical, and it's a fact that people mislead even themselves.

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Saying that power corrupts in no way contradicts the fact that the corrupt seek power. However, there is a pervasive myth that, "If only we get the right guy in office in this next election, all the corruption will be washed away in a tide of democratic virtue!" Remember how Trump was supposed to "drain the swamp"? Obama was the "peace candidate"? W. promised a "humble foreign policy"? I am certain all three were corrupt from the start, but they sold their campaigns on virtue. I think even Ron Paul and other politicians who have a reputation for fighting corruption were tainted by the power they held, though.

Interesting that you cite Ron Paul, who I was going to cite as the singular politician of which I am aware that apparently did not ever accept encomiums from lobbyists. I acknowledge that being an honest man is a terrible flaw in a politician, however.

Instead of wrangling over whether or not everyone, or only most everyone, is corrupt to varying degrees, I reckon adopting newly available means of production suitable for individual use, like aquaponics and 3D printing, as convenient and profitable in our particular circumstances, and then expanding those means to our fellows and families incrementally reduces parasitization and institutional power as it increases the profitability of our productive undertakings.

As development proceeds, the personal ability to manufacture modern security technology that is able to prevent armed thugs from projecting institutional force will increasingly render institutions of every kind, private corporation and state alike, obsolete.

Then we will be free.

Decentralize everything without begging for permission first.

Absolutely. There are no permits required to adopt emerging means of production suitable to individual use. 3D printers, aquaponics, CRISPR, etc., are all in the wild now and essentially zero regulation has been undertaken regarding any.

how do you decentralize healthcare?

Well, prior to Nixon, US healthcare was decentralized, and absent taxation (in the form of mandates to provide employee insurance) US healthcare was the best in the world, and least expensive. Both those metrics have worsened progressively as increasing mandatory benefits decreased free market incentive to keep prices down and provide better services. At the time many NGOs (such as religious organizations) provided assistance to folks unable to afford medical treatment on their own. This is why today many hospitals still bear names associated with churches and religious orders, even though such religious organizations often no longer are involved, private corporations having purchased the facilities.

Today AI, CRISPR, robotics, and other technological advances are concatenating to enable individuals to tailor nutrition and lifestyle control to their personal requirements, diagnose illness, and produce their own pharmaceutical and treatment regimens to cure or treat themselves. People dependent on government mandated nutritional information on food provided by Big Agra are hopelessly misinformed, poisoned, and then funneled into the Big Pharma profit center.

It is becoming rapidly less useful to seek treatment by institutional walled gardens of specialists controlled and parasitized by corporations, and horrible food quality is the cause of ~50% of epidemic diseases like obesity, cardiovascular illness, and type 2 diabetes, in the west today. Increasingly failing to undertake to ensure your own health is tantamount to suicide.

It is notable that medical malpractice and errors are ~the third leading cause of death in the West today. Little is potentially more profitable for individuals to undertake than avoiding that murderous industry.

Okay, so how do you explain the best healthcare systems being universal government funded ones today? That kind of debunks your whole homicidal thesis.