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     5 years ago 

    Ongoing today is the distribution of technology to individuals that enables them to produce goods and services. There is a lag time necessary to distribute new tech, and since advance is effected by institutions, there is a temporary institutional increase in power. The more advanced the technology, the more power it delivers and the shorter the lag in distribution. As a result, decentralization always results from technological advance, and decreases the power of institutions because they are centralization of power, and does so ever faster as time goes on.

    Cameras and communications technology once solely possessed by institutions are now nearly ubiquitous in the possession of individuals. Recently facial recognition has emerged and already apps that enable its use by individuals have become available. In short, institutional power is the result of centralization, and decentralization is increasingly empowering individuals and reducing institutional power. Steem distributes financial surveillance to individuals formerly potential only to financial institutions.

    Some of the most egregious powers used to prey on individuals by institutions are surveillance, violent force, and financial predation. We can today see that these technologies are being decentralized as means of production of hardware and software facilitate individual possession of those powers.

    I cannot see any way that institutional power can be maintained going forward, as technology enables individuals to do themselves what has previously been only possible through centralization. Censorship, whether just of data, or by destruction of civilization itself and setting us back to the stone age, can only delay this process. As long as the laws of physics make it more efficient to distribute means of production than centralize it, and humanity continues to advance technology, only our extinction can actually stop decentralization from rendering institutional power obsolete - and extinction renders institutional power obsolete.

    All that is necessary to overcome corrupt institutions is to gain the personal means to produce goods and services previously only possible to institutions, and each adoption by an individual of means of production exponentially increases decentralization by multiplying distribution and development, and no other means of doing so exists.

    If you would be free and live in a free society, adopt such decentralized means of production as are convenient and profitable in your individual circumstances. You produce information via this post that reduces the power of the enemedia and benefits all free people by doing exactly that. That natural process of adoption of means that empower us is replicated across every industry, and will continue until institutions no longer are able to corrupt society by centralization at all.

    Thanks!

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     5 years ago 

    Thanks for sharing your outlook/knowledge here. As I consider you one of the great thinkers here, it's both humbling and an honor. This is one of those rare areas I find myself in disagreement with you, so I will share why and welcome any thoughts you have on mine that you would consider misguided. My point won't be as elaborate as yours, as I'm somewhat of a simple man despite my appreciation for well thought out presentations.

    The disconnect between your view and mine stems from your belief that all these tools (computers, internet, tech for home production, etc) will free us, and mine that they are doing the opposite and chaining us. The very groups who control the manufacture and sale of these tools are the same ones who desire and practice our enslavement. I have written of (and read much more) of backdoors in the tech, we use their lines and satellites/towers to connect. They control the flow of goods and supplies. And most important of all, they control an army of men with guns whose job is to kidnap or murder those who run afoul of the good graces of these technological robber barons.

    It seems to me that to have your view point is to ignore their back doors, to ignore their control of every aspect of virtually all the methods you champion as ones that will be their downfall and our tool(s) for freedom.

    At the end of the day, when those men of violence show up on ones doorstep, one will either comply with their demands or be outgunned. If one is enough of a nuisance to them, they will not even give the option of complying. They show this again and again.

    Often, possibilities can look great on paper. But once those who control the violence are involved, those possibilities will most often bend to meet their demands. A comment I received a couple weeks ago regarding anarchy by @logiczombie seems fitting here. He wrote

    Anarchy only sounds like a good idea if you are well defended. Those with power like to blame the powerless for their misfortune. POOR = BAD. The gods must favor the rich because they are better than everyone else. This is what anarchy leads to, The Origin of Law.

    https://steemit.com/logiczombie/@logiczombie/q0t2za

    I don't understand your belief these tools will negate the truth of violence.

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