Institutional power is already obsolete. It dies. Society will not join it on the pyre, but become something people effect voluntarily, far preferable to the manipulation and violent force that suffused it now.
Yep, until the masses accept that rule by force always loops back to here, where we are now, we don't have much hope of escaping this dystopic loop, imo.
I don't think it matters what the masses accept or reject regarding government at all. What matters is what each individual grasps benefits them in their particular circumstances. Working at a job that skims half your income off the top in taxes so you can buy stuff the price of which is mostly profit or other costs of doing business with the wages leftover from taxation makes individual possession of means of producing goods way far more profitable.
That's what I think is going to matter, and when making your own security from armed thugs is undertaken successfully by some early adopters, that success will force everyone to follow that example in order to maintain parity.
I don't think politics is relevant to the transformation of society that is ongoing. It's simply cost benefit analysis, and no one wants to bear more costs than everybody else, or get less benefits than are potential to them. That's the real revolution: making politics obsolete.
Institutional power is already obsolete. It dies. Society will not join it on the pyre, but become something people effect voluntarily, far preferable to the manipulation and violent force that suffused it now.
Thanks!
Yep, until the masses accept that rule by force always loops back to here, where we are now, we don't have much hope of escaping this dystopic loop, imo.
I don't think it matters what the masses accept or reject regarding government at all. What matters is what each individual grasps benefits them in their particular circumstances. Working at a job that skims half your income off the top in taxes so you can buy stuff the price of which is mostly profit or other costs of doing business with the wages leftover from taxation makes individual possession of means of producing goods way far more profitable.
That's what I think is going to matter, and when making your own security from armed thugs is undertaken successfully by some early adopters, that success will force everyone to follow that example in order to maintain parity.
I don't think politics is relevant to the transformation of society that is ongoing. It's simply cost benefit analysis, and no one wants to bear more costs than everybody else, or get less benefits than are potential to them. That's the real revolution: making politics obsolete.