The Establishment is not on your side

Rulers toolsSome people—mostly anarchists—have come to this realization already.

Yes, government, the law, the constitution, all these things have preserved a measure of comfort and safety.  But at what cost?  Obviously, an acceptable cost until recently.  Now many more beyond the anarchist set are seeing the establishment for what it is—a self-perpetuating, self-interest–preserving, racist institution.

David Graeber turned me on to the reality that government, debt, corporations, and markets aren’t on my side or yours either.  Since its earliest formations, sovereign rule has been about one thing—preserving its status as ruler.  Its preservation techniques have softened over time.  It used to be that the Alpha (clan leader, king, emperor) would kill you for questioning his authority.  Over time rulers got smart enough to realize that they shouldn’t kill everyone.  Who would they rule if everyone was killed off?

So they started taking care of you, making your lands safe in return for taxes.  Giving you things you could spend the tokens of the king’s reign on (money and markets), rewarding those who helped him maintain civil society (police, armies, merchants),  wooing you into compliance, distracting you with stories and riches from abroad obtained through conquest.

Things haven’t changed much since sovereigns took the kinder-gentler approach.  It just feels better, and it is.  We’re way more comfortable.  Stories from abroad have become more alarmist than stories of glorious conquest.  Stories from within the kingdom regale too—Super Bowls and other championship quests, disaster stories, and other news.

We’ve traded something for that comfort—the greater comfort of total freedom.  Hard to conceive being more free than we are now.  It’s much easier for people to conceive of being richer than they are right now, which is another thing we’ve traded for comfort—enormous levels of prosperity for everyone.

That’s changing, though.

I was skeptical of The Shift new agers had been talking about with the coming of 2012.  I’m less skeptical now that we’re seeing what we’re seeing in 2020.  Probably because I feel I’m on the leading edge of that shift. Standing there, I’ve said things would need to get worse before they get better.

We’re seeing that. Meanwhile me and a stalwart group of people helping me are literally taking on something most people still believes is impossible.

I love doing the impossible. I love it because I know nothing is impossible.

Yeah, it was news to me that the Establishment is out for itself.  I was blind.  Seeing is so much better.

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