Two thousand years ago Rome built Barbegal. The technology necessary to do so wasn't merely hydraulics and masonry. A single entity had to undertake the enterprise of manufacturing the bread necessary to Rome, and Barbegal was but one facet of the enterprise. Concentrating the wealth and materiel necessary to construction was trivial compared to the ability to need it's product. The centralization of power was well advanced in Rome, more impressively than it's ability to build aqueducts, roads, and war.
Sadly, that centralization was what produced Rome's downfall. Centralization inevitably results in collapse. Social power is incapable of being delegated as is necessary to centralized governance without engendering corruption, and ultimately corruption fells the institution unjustly taking the power of sovereign persons through slavery and involuntary servitude.
Every civilization has fallen to date. We're next, and our downfall is ongoing as I write. Does anyone really doubt this today?
The empire that has seized the entire world in it's centralized institutional grasp is in the process of destroying itself, and we have the choice of remaining dependent on it and perishing for the lack of it's sustenance, or undertaking to avail ourselves our necessities.
Decentralization is the cure for corruption, slavery, and imperial collapse.
Our infrastructure isn't constructed to provide us the means to provide our own goods and services without sustaining a parasitic class that (badly) provides management services for the institutions supplying those resources. Previously there has been a profitable transaction between plebs and overlords in which overlords concentrated the productive resources provided by plebs to field armies that seized assets from less powerful neighbors, while doling out enough sustaining resources to keep sufficient numbers of plebs alive to supply the armies.
This generally works, but malice and the absence of goodwill eventually prevents competitors from succeeding. This is unless all the competitors collude and limit their competitive affect, which seems to have reached a functional threshold globally today.
Like the Roman empire, successful establishment of this institution globally will result in collapse from within, as the malice and absence of goodwill in administrators results in existential internecine competition. Theodoric merely took advantage of that collapse, and then made every effort to prevent that malicious culture from infecting the Ostrogoths, managing to delay their collapse for a generation.
At the time the automation technology presently fielded did not exist, and the ability to secure production from thieves could not be decentralized.
This enables today the transcendance of centralization, preventing theft of production and wealth by armed gangs through modern security tech. Centralization depends on armed gangs and theft, and is incapable of enabling security from itself. Today WMDs make an individual capable of their manufacture and deployment immune from gangs of armed thugs, effecting their independence from tyranny and retention of their wealth produced by their independent means.
It is that independence of means and security which is wealth, and it is possible to humanity today technologically. This is why psyops and censorship is the rampant face of centralization today, because only being addled prevents people from being reasonable, and reasonable people want to be independently wealthy.
There is today a conceivable pathway from beginning with a simple 3D printer to having all your goods and services produced by your own efforts. The rep rap movement has attempted to develop 3D printers that produce 3D printers, which enable that manufacturing ability to spread. In addition to manufacturing products, using 3D printers to build infrastructure such as houses, aquaponics, communications devices, and so forth, enable the gradual development of an automated suite of production facilities that provide all necessities of an individual, and more to invest in others.
The environmental scourges of the world are all inflicted on us by centralization. Destruction of the ecosystems of the world are caused by industrial agriculture, and the necessity of massive enterprises to produce goods, such as Barbegal. Eskimo mothers who don't live within a thousand miles of a field of corn have glyphosate in their cord blood.
When we grow our own food in our homes using aquaponics we won't drench them in endocrine disrupting, cancerous chemicals, and we won't level the forests and prairies we live in because they provide our quality of life. Decentralization prevents the toxic effects of centralization, and present us the opposite future of remaining subject to collapsing centralized global tyranny.
Millenia ago, Deuteronomy 30:15 revealed the choice we have today:
"...I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction."
From verse 11 the personal ability to do this is assured:
"...Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”"
Peace and prosperity, death and destruction. Decentralization and independence of means, or slavery and penury unto death. Your hands will produce one or the other nominal to your future.
The raging mobs are coming.
Choose life. Do it today.
Let your Freedom tomorrow come from you today.
Just found out I have Hive Account. Good to see you buddy!
Welcome back to the fold! Just in time for the shearing of the sheeple. How's Germany?
hehe, Germany is doing fine, at least better better than the US atm :)
Well, that's damned with faint praise =)
Senior, The centralization of Rome led to the collapse of the Roman Empire, but it facilitated the spread of Christianity. Today, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestantism were all born in Europe.
New continent and Europe were divided into three Christian sects, but they are a Christian civilization.
It is politically, economically, religiously and culturally decentralized, but the unity of a Christian civilization is interesting.
On the other hand, Islamic civilization, the enemy of Christianity, is different in that it is decentralized into Shi'ite, Sunni, Sufism, Taliban, Arab, Iranian, Egyptian and Libyan.
In the days when Europe was the world's hegemony in the past, wars and conflicts continued, and two world wars broke out in Europe.
After World War II, as the United States became the hegemony, World War III did not burst and only small wars broke out.
So, I think it's good that America is the world's hegemony. Currently, the world order in which the United States monitors Europe, Russia, China, Japan, and Islam is good.
In particular, South Korea wants the reality that the United States suppresses the aggressiveness of China, Japan, Russia and North Korea.
The valued-customer's argument is theoretically correct. By the way, I don't know if the valued-customer's argument fits the reality of East Asia.
If the great American civilian Bill Gates, loved by valued-customers, becomes Caesar in Korea, China and Japan, at least there will be no war in East Asia.
Today, East Asia wants the capital, skills and know-how of Bill Gates' empire.
It seems that East Asians want peace in Rome, not Roman republic.
All the religions you mention are centralized, with priests, temples, and wealth all controlled by an overlord, some kind of Arch Priest. Some are larger and more powerful than others, and some are more barbaric, but all of them are centrally controlled.
I cannot fully grasp the cultural reality of East Asia, so suspect I am likely to be wrong, at least in part, but I believe what people want from Bill Gates in Asia is a high quality of life, not being forced to accept DNA alteration and tracking ID2020 chips being injected into them.
Adopting decentralized means of production is really becoming the only way to prosper. Governments around the world are destroying small businesses, apparently intentionally targeting them and delivering their customers to large corporations who aren't restricted as are small businesses.
Centralization seems to be reaching it's penultimate stage, the point where civilian populations become a drag on the economy for the most wealthy overlords, who have more power than those yet dependent on people rather than finance for their funds. Now is when pogroms and genocides are being prepared. Death squads are being recruited, and target lists drawn up. Mobs of murderous minions are being whipped into frenzies, lusting for violence and blood like alcoholics do wine. They are drunk on the wine of violence.
East Asia is sadly more familiar with such than most places in the world. I'm sure all people want to avoid political cataclysms. I don't think we're going to be able to dodge the bullet coming at us today, that virtue signaling propagandists have fanned into conflagrations of hate and murderous envy.
We should make sure they don't have the power to do such things, and making stuff ourselves reduces their wealth and power. If we get good at making advanced technological tools and equipment, we can also make WMDs, which are designed to take out gangs rather than individual enemies, which is just the ticket for enraged mobs.
I really hope that people everywhere are strapping up with weapons that will make mobs with torches, nooses, and pitchforks obsolete, because that will make overlords obsolete.
Then we can improve our standards of living while massively increasing our individual freedom of action. I will die before the world I foresee comes to pass, but I will die with a smile on my face, happy our posterity will live better lives than we did.
Edit: also, Christianity may not be quite as unified as you think. Wars have been fought, people burned alive, and genocides committed because of sectarianism, all across Europe, and the rest of the world is not unscathed.
"glyphosate" is a good thing, it naturally comes from nature. Our own bodies even produce glyphosate. Glyphosate is an innocent bystander kidnapped by Monsanto as a chelator to bind their weed killing chemicals to plants. It's those chemicals that are bad not the glyphosate.
I reckon the glyphosate isn't the worst chemical in the mix, but it's a carcinogen, and it's most of the volume of the mix. Roundup has dioxin in it, a byproduct of manufacture of the active ingredient. No amount of dioxin is safe.
The point is not so much a battle of toxicity between carcinogens, but the ubiquity of the chemical pollution of our food. Eskimos didn't get exposed to it by spraying their lawns. They got it from their food, which they bought off the shelves, just like the rest of us.
Glyphosate isn't a chemical it's an organic compound. That's why Monsanto can sit in court and try claim their product doesn't harm people because it's a natural compound. Sort of how the left claims that hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for people with covid...it's basically true but it's a half truth, alone it doesn't, you have to have the zinc which is what stops the virus from replicating in the cells, hydroxychloroquine only helps the zinc break through into the cells...making it also a chelator as the zinc binds to it. Zinc on it's own can't bring on it's own the quantity needed in the cells to stop the replication. Polyethoxylatd tallou amind or polyalkaxylated surfactants such as polyoxyethylene alkylamine in round up are contaminated with 1,4-dioxane. In round up levels can be as high as 350 ppm. 1,4-dioxane is a carcinogenic and is known to damage the liver, kidneys, brain and lungs.
Arsenic occurs naturally. I still don't want it in my food. The point being food that I grow myself I will not drench in glyphosate, dioxin, or arsenic.
Industrial agriculture does drench it's products in such things, and that's why glyphosate is found in the cord blood of Eskimos.
Again, the body naturally produces glyphosate, not that what was found in the Eskimos cord blood was naturally occurring the issue is with you and many millions of others labeling glyphosate as the culprit in Round Up when it is not, it's an innocent bystander who got caught up in the fray and the reason behind it is because by Monsanto choosing to let a naturally occurring organic compound mask the underlying poisons they put in their product is in essence allowing them to use the argument that their product is safe....if everyone stopped blaming glyphosate and addressed the real poisons added head on it takes their argument away.
No.
Have you ever heard of hydrolysis? It's being poisoned by too much pure water. Drenching our food in chemicals is toxic. Glyphosate is a carcinogen when in quantity that is present in our foods. That does not reduce the far worse toxicity of the other chemicals in RoundUp.
It's the development model of centralized institutions that is the actual carcinogen, that causes Big Ag to plant vast acreages of monocultures it is economically profitable to drench in herbicide. Decentralization of food production, each household growing it's own food with aquaponics, is the solution.
Arguing about the relative toxicity of the chemicals in our mass produced simulated foods is not useful to that technological advance. Eliminating the industrial manufacturing model is. All that is necessary to do that is stop buying chemical sludge with some claimed nutritional content in it.
Aquaponics, growing our own food, is the solution. Decentralization is the solution to all political, environmental, and developmental problems in the world today.
Wrong. I studied the issue extensively, I have two pages written down on it. Glyphosate in large doses hasn't been studied enough to even warrant suggesting that, like steroids, large introductions into the body could disrupt the bodies own ability to produce it. Now, with that said, if it hasn't been studied enough to determine that then it hasn't been studied enough to label it as causing cancer. Back to the drawing board for you.
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We prepare the feast where our sons and daughters will be sated. I look forward to the day when we enjoy that good fortune in our good company.
I told ya, you'll be good company! :D
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Interesting excerpts you have chosen from God's Word @valued-customer. Beyond others reading the context in which those statements were made, here is another one, for your consideration:
In both yours and here, we read the consequences facing man. Free to choose? Yes. Free to choose the consequences of our choices? No.
As Americans, in understanding the legacy handed down to us from our Founding Fathers (as your post is on Independence Day), I know of no better quote tied to this above than the following:
In the brief time I have this morning, I do not have the time to track down the source of this, but I have never forgotten it, as I think it captures very concisely what choice man has in front of him. When it comes to his decisions about "centralization" and "decentralization."
Well said, and gently so.
Thanks!