Centralization + Evil ? Centralization is usually just slow, and unresponsive. Is it inherently evil?
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Centralization + Evil ? Centralization is usually just slow, and unresponsive. Is it inherently evil?
I think so, because it requires assuming governmental control of sovereign people, who neither need it nor benefit from it today. Each of us has alone the power and authority over our limbs and persons, and no other person(s) rightfully have any authority over us. It is how God, or gods, or the vagaries of evolution, have made us, and centralization depends on imposing such authority contrary to nature on free people.
Because we have independent means that have but recently advented, the reality is that centralization has become technologically obsolete, and I am happy that such paradigms become mere history in time. As the incipient decentralized means of production develop and disperse, and as humanity spreads across the solar system to sites of resource concentration to develop them into wealth, the recollection of centralization that was once unavoidable on Earth will rapidly fade, to re-emerge from time to time because it's noxious consequences will have been forgotten, and the lessons of liberty will be re-learned wherever centralization rears it's ugly visage.
Centralization is not at all slow. It is simply focused on the vision of the peak of the hierarchy. If you've ever worked for a boss, you will find they expect responsiveness to their plots. Timeliness is godliness in their eyes. They are not slow, they are simply not decentralized and are therefore less responsive in multiple ways simultaneously. You either dance quickly to the tune your Pope or CEO sings, or dance belatedly, perhaps at the end of a rope, in consequence. For millennia centralization has not only been the most efficient means of advancing productivity, it has been absolutely necessary to it. Now it's obsolete. We pass through a clinal boundary as a result that will restore merit as the selection criteria, instead of pandering and conformity, as has been necessary to please and placate overlords.
In space no one can tell you what to do.