A few reflections on central planning:
All central planning systems are unstable at their heart. One defining feature of authoritarian regimes is a lack of error-correcting mechanisms. This is partly caused by the prevention and crippling of individual decisionmaking. Without local decisionmaking based on local data and experience, the system becomes further and further removed from any semblance of reality alignment.
We know what happens to a complex computer code without error-correction; the code becomes increasingly vulnerable. There's a point of no return when even obvious errors must stay in place or you risk a breakdown of the system. From there you have a downward spiral preventing course correction.
As a central planning system progresses without error-correction, it causes increasing amounts of harm. The dependencies on a few central chokepoints also makes the system frail; the slightest problem reverberates with expanding consequences.
The inevitable harm caused by the system leads to protests and exposes novel cracks in the architecture. This in turn triggers the government to wield lies, gaslighting and rigging of data to cover up and deflect responsibility from the harm caused by central planners and to keep their narratives in control of public perception.
As the data becomes increasingly manipulated, to support failed policies that are hammered into place as a child would hammer a square peg into a round hole, the assumptions drawn from the corrupted data becomes so removed from reality that they represent a reversal of facts.
War is peace, liberty is tyranny, up is down, et cetera. Policies based on assumptions drawn from the incorrect and manipulated data increases the destruction caused by the system, which in turn leads to widespread protests and further instability.
This is how the path toward 'total order', based on the application of force, coercion and false narratives, in actuality leads to instability and fragmentation.
As instability worsens, we can expect internal fights for power among the leadership strata, combined with defections of competent personnel. We can also expect programmers and engineers, being among the first to grasp the ramifications of obvious negative systemic downstream consequences, to go on strike in a variety of manners. They will demonstrate their disapproval from the simple act of ignoring flaws and bugs in various systems, to introducing vulnerabilities in an act of defiance.
It seems clear that the downfall of tyrannical regimes is inevitable from their dislodging from reality.
Bitcoin, in combination with decentralized communication channels allows us global tools to turn the tide and hopefully reduce the damage that central planning systems will cause in their hopeless quest for ultimate power.
The universe favors decentralization, variety, competition, options and sovereign decisions; hence the proliferation of life and individual consciousness.
The characteristic pattern of life involves complex self-regulating eco-systems and emergent order based on autonomous decisions. There are no top-down central planning machinations to be found in either nature or the universe.
