the entire legislative and executive branches of governments are nonsense
all we need is courts, everything can be sorted out based on how a court will resolve a conflict
the only protection that the courts need is being decentralized, to be independent and competing for the hearing/case fees of claimants who have found themselves in need of mediation
like the old pre-monarchy days of Judaism, before Samuel and David
In Italy schools teach us to celebrate the heroes that unified the country by conquering what previously were separated regions. Also they celebrate language unified; until radio and television in Italy people speaked local peculiar languages, they didnt understand each others. Then, in time of one/two generations they all shifted to italian, a language created in laboratory based on a sort of fake-florentin.
Its also common for people with their children to interrupt the grandmother <----> grandson language relationship by correcting the arcaic words and expressions that they learn because they feels its simptom of ignorance and stupidity.
This boomer generation here is mostly composed by doomed statists and mostly deserves (and contributed to create) all the bad they will receive from the state.
Statism cant proliferate without bad people. And people never questioning what they do and think, just passively accepting their benefits are bad people.
the days of liberal democracy are rapidly coming to an end
their institutions are collapsing and the people are being harmed more than helped, it is inevitable
and Nature will help also, because in the next few decades, very likely the entire power grid and radio communications and satellite systems are all going to be fried by solar radiation that is no longer being deflected by earth's magnetic field because the prevailing magnetic flux lines from our galaxy are now passing through into a 90' phase with them and cancelling them out at somewhere between 0' and 90'
the people who will survive this are the ones who move away from the sea, up to the mountains, who develop life support systems that don't depend on electricity and who understand why the modern secular liberal democratic state must not return once its burned out
i think we will keep our computers, but they will become more focused on actually calculating stuff than inducing a state of trance and persuasion, but even still i'm definitely stacking paper books of science so i at least have that to offer to the next generation after the change has completed
Mm but your courts will need capacity for overwhelming physical violence or they'd be ignored, and once you've got that you are on the government/mafia spectrum and that's that. Power is power.
power needs centralisation to be harmful
centralisation eventually collapses to the point where it may take years for the networks to rebuild, in which time people may decide not to rebuild them
100%.
I'd further suggest Medieval England and Iceland, and lron Age Ireland, are more recent and less centralised models than ancient Judah, and culturally less remote.
Xeer (Somalia and northern Kenya) and Pashtunwali (parts of Afghanistan and the NW of Pakistan) are very much alive and practised by societies that litigate about mobile phones and shitcoin scams, government fiat courts be damned.
"The Law of the Somalis" is a great book by a Dutch lawyer who "went native", highly recommend.
definitely good material for formulating strategies of evading the centralisation of power
in general, living more remote exposes you less to power but in some strategic configurations the more strong your system's defences are the bigger your society can get and thus leverage efficiency gains where it might otherwise succumb to co-option
put it this way, i live in an outlying district of portugal now, in an outlying part, with relativel high population density, and some quite unique strategic and tactical features to the landscape (logistics costs are very very high here) and the people successfully enjoy quite a bit of isolation due to this feature of the land... i believe similar things are at play with afghanistan and with the parts of south east asia that the chinese mandarins could not dominate, and are still largely independent (ie, thailand, laos, cambodia, vietnam)
the police barely pass my house more than once a week at their most frequent and usually during party times, and if there is car accidents, which are relatively severe in their impact due to the terrain
while i would prefer i did not have two yapping chihuahua mutts right next door, and there is some construction noise going on as more people build and renovate nearby, this is a nice place to be, i can probably stay pretty incognito here for some time before i get roped into bullshit by a tax collector
