We are told governments exist to secure our freedom and prosperity, but war, regulatory overreach, and corporate cronyism are shackling us to poverty. There is no hope there. However, people are also seeking alternative solutions based on voluntary frameworks. Open-source alternatives to corporate software, cryptocurrency and silver instead of government fiat, building local communities instead of waiting for government bureaucratic solutions. It's not hopeless, but neither is anything easy. The general public seems conditioned to nationalism, partisanship, and blind obedience to self-profeseed "authorities."
Some how people still believe this. I don't understand how with all the evidence to the contrary.
If Walmart ran a school monopoly, had pictures of their CEOs and boards of directors on all the walls, and taught a generation that Sam Walton was the founding father of economic freedom, a lot of people would grow up to believe it. And that's without the mythology our ancestors built around political systems.
This is true. I am just biding me time until Gandalf comes and sorts all this out.