In this conversation Silhouette do not forget that I am a socialist that believes in employee trade unions, universal healthcare, free universal public education, and freely accessed government funded work style occupational apprenticeships. I also believe in wages where everybody has some common standard of basic living or what others refer to as a livable wage. I understand that inequality will always persist but I believe that we must minimize it as much as possible for greater social, cultural, racial, economic, and societal cohesion. Too much social inequality rampant will completely destroy any society, nation, culture, or civilization in a matter of generations, this always happens every time in history. While my viewpoint of human nature is a purely negative one compared to others where I certainly don’t have a rosy picture of human nature or human beings ourselves I firmly believe that the solution to human nature’s many faults is an enlightened state of government that helps us transcend our natural petty basic primitive impulses. A capitalist government of course doesn’t do this but instead commodifies this human weakness or nature within the project that it calls the free market, it doesn’t transcend human nature at all but instead makes sure that it doesn’t where it is locked away in material vice.
Centralization isn’t the problem, it’s the specific kind of centralization we have now that is the problem. Decentralization is chaos and anarchistic, it always amazes me when people who support decentralization complains about criminal lawlessness in the highest echelons of government where my retort is almost always, what the hell did you expect to happen differently?
Your world view where you see things getting better historically I just don’t see. Such a position is incomprehensible to me.
Also, yes I am autocratic and I don’t see how your individualistic atomization of political democracy will solve or deliver anything at all especially in the libertarian- capitalistic western sphere of the world.
As far as political reform in modern democracies it is a moot point because the wealthy, banks, corporate conglomerates, and special interests controls it all. It is all rigged and there will never be any kind of political reform. They control the pocket books of presidents, prime ministers, senators, congressman, and the like. No, if we’re to change anything we will need an army with firearms and bayonets pointed at all the bastards and bitches of the world where we say to them you blink when you’re told to where if you do not comply we will pull the trigger. Revolutionary uprising is the only answer and democracy is an ideal of fools.