Too often what is stated in official policies is a lie, and the very opposite is the actual policy of agents of the power behind the throne. In democracies particularly, it is absolutely false that the people themselves wield political power through elections.
Recent research published by one of the Ivy League (can't remember atm if it was Stanford, Princeton, or another) revealed that lobbyists so strongly controlled legislation they they themselves wrote the actual legislation merely approved by representatives, and the will of the people only determined what rhetoric was employed to keep them from acting to effect their interests.
The basis for keeping people from acting en masse to effect their interests is divide and conquer, which causes the majority of the electorate to view each other, not the actual rulers, as the enemy of their interests. Republicans see Democrats as their enemies. The left vs. the right, men vs. women, young vs. old, white vs. poc, and etc.
The US became a superpower by a very similar process, as Europe and Asia contested for global power, the USA acted similarly to lobbyists dividing and setting the sides of the electorate against each other. Most of the destruction of WWII was borne by Europe and Asia, and when the USA entered the war it largely remained unaffected by military destruction.
A constant throughout history is that individuals have had to be members of a group in order to gain power. This is seen as a natural aspect of being human, but in fact it is an effect of institutionalization and centralization, which has burgeoned by enabling scale. Decentralization enables improved scale, and increases efficiency over centralization.
But the vast wealth and power of banksters cannot be maintained when manufacturing is decentralized, so every effort is being made today to keep production centralized, and to cause people to be dependent ever more on polities for every good in life. Particularly through censorship and propaganda, people are kept focused on issues which devote their attention to matters that profit overlords, rather than undertake the learning curve to adopt individual manufacturing.
While nothing can prevent it, the present massive international effort to oppress and surveil populations is a desperate attempt to so completely enslave them that they cannot produce their own goods and services at all, and to eliminate any that oppose slavery.
We individual people will best profit from ignoring long corrupted polities and the centralized oppression and economy we are indoctrinated to participate in, and developing our own capacity to produce goods and services, while interacting socially across imposed boundaries designed to separate us into competitors with each other. We can cooperate instead, and disperse decentralized means of production to increase the power of society while decreasing the flow of wealth to our oppressors.
In this way freedom, which is independence from centralized power, will burgeon and become able to provide our necessities while overlords become irrelevant, and their empires curiosities of history, marvels of barbarism to thrill our posterity, like ghost stories around a campfire on a dark night.
senior, No one in Korea, China, or Japan claims the danger of centralization like you.
Many Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese now believe that China will dominate East Asia again because the United States is not a country in East Asia.
@valued-customer, you make observations and judgments based on individual thoughts and feelings, but East Asians make judgments based on history and philosophy.
Americans play Nintendo games, while East Asians play Go and chess.
Go and chess symbolize the conquest and rulership of kings and nobles.
Koreans always feel that the United States is too far, but China and Japan are neighbors.
Your words are right. But who will protect South Korea from China, Japan, Russia and North Korea?
After all, Korea must live surrounded by empires.
So, Koreans are closer to centralization and empire.
Your words and thoughts are great, but it is probably difficult for Koreans to understand.
Everyone in the world, not only Asians, has been raised to believe empire is necessary and unavoidable. But, the world is not condemned to repeat history. Technology advances, and the cutting edge of advance is decentralization of means of production today.
Empire is barbaric, and as obsolete as pointy sticks and packs of dogs for hunting.
Ask a Korean if they would prefer to use a 3D printer to make custom light switch plate covers or to buy the generic ones sold at the hardware store. When Koreans start to answer that they would prefer custom made ones they make themselves, you will know it is time for empires to fall in Asia.
Korea has been surrounded by empire, but in the future there will be no empires, no countries at all. There will still be Korean people, but not countries.
First, sadly, there will be wars for empire that will be lost. Many will die when the overlords desperately try to keep their wealth and power over others. They will fail, and after we defeat them, we will be free.
Honorable senior, I apologize for the fact that I made a mistake because of poor English.
ssenior, No one in Korea, China, or Japan claims the danger of decentralization like you. << In this sentence, decentralization should be modified to centralization.
Seniors, Koreans cannot freely purchase 3D printers without permission from the Korean government. Only government-approved companies can produce or purchase 3D printers.
The United States has rebuilt Japan as a Western developed country to prevent Russia, China and North Korea from attacking the United States.
Koreans know that as long as Russia, China and North Korea exist, the United States will continue to support Japan.
Japan, China, Russia and North Korea all envy and want US wealth and power.
They will maintain imperial policy to deprive America of wealth and power.
The Korean ruling class, the media, scholars, businessmen and politicians argue that centralization creates the future of Korea.
Seniors, You, perhaps, know better the human desires, ambitions, and natures than I do.
Will people just not keep their wealth when the means of doing so is at hand? I am stunned that Korean people do not have free access to 3D printers. The power of government there to prevent the people from even conceiving of their lives as their own to live, to convince people they are simply property, utterly confounds me.
I would not have believed Korea was so tyrannical if you had not told me.
I must point out that I was raised running on the beaches and forests of Alaska, foraging and hunting for food daily. The mental state of people that would simply agree they should abide by laws that prevent them from owning ordinary tools is completely beyond my ability to imagine or understand.
Thank you for revealing something about humanity I could not have conceived of had you not told me of it.
Respectable seniors, Korea, China and Japan are feudal countries like Europe. Because the United States had no emperor, king, or pope, all Americans were equal. However, Asia and Europe were different from the United States because they had been feudal for 2000 years.
The Korean government has banned individuals from purchasing and producing 3D printers. Only government-approved companies can sell and own 3D printers.
The South Korean government insisted that Koreans could terrorize by sneaking made guns and bombs with 3D printers.
As you argue, many Koreans are dissatisfied with the situation where the ruling classes of Korea, China, and Japan monopolize wealth and power.
So, the South Korean government insisted that Koreans could terrorize with weapons made using 3D printers.
Eventually, it was forbidden for individuals to produce and sell 3D printers without permission from the Korean government.
Frustrated and desperate, it is highly likely that the lower classes of South Koreans will use their weapons to sneak up on terror.
Rather than being terrorists, I submit that the Korean, and other Asian peoples, are subjected to terrorism by their governments, and those governments forbid their victims from having means of defending themselves from that terrorism.
It is exactly in these circumstances that free people must act to defend themselves from tyranny, or pass their oppression down to their posterity.
Honorable senior, you are right. South Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese are enslaved by their government.
The rulers of South Korea, China and Japan, with the aid of Bill Gates, are enslaving their own people.
So, the lower Koreans were brainwashed by the Christian heresy, and they spread the corona virus. The goal is to spread the corona virus and create the end of the world.
The South Korean government is covering up the news that desperate South Koreans are committing terrorism.
The Korean government is hiding the fact that the lower Koreans commit arson, murder, assault, and rape.