andymouse@slrpnk.nettocollapse of the old society@slrpnk.net•We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse
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1 year agoTolkien warned us. Nobody can carry the ring, it must be destroyed. But nobody wants to destroy it.
Except a few anar… ehm, some hobbits.
How do you destroy power without creating a power vacuum ready to be filled by someone else?
It would be like overthrowing the government/corporates and then placing hidden snipers around the government/corporate building, shooting down anyone staying there for too long.
From an evolutionary perspective, only the ones who survive matter.
So in that spirit, the only way to create a society resistant to power consolidations is one that actively recognizes, seeks out and annihilates said power consolidations.
As otherwise, they will annihilate everything opposing them – as history tells us.
There are gentler social traditions to distribute wealth and power so as to avoid consolidation. Probably the post-colonial world is beyond that point.
A scary prospect, to be sure, but in the grand scheme of things… “The secrets of evolution are time and death” as Carl Sagan said in Cosmos.