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Decentralizing the issuance of currency is one way to decentralize governments. The most decentralized issuance of currency you can get is to have each individual issuing their own currency. Perhaps the easiest way to issue your own currency is to create and donate your own gift certificates. You could literally start today.
What if most regions choose one single political system after centuries or millenia?
Awesome content, narrator is good, but should skip the different accents. Just my opinion!
The Roman Empire collapsed under its own weight. War, disease, corruption, inflation and later hyper-inflation.
I could cry cuz I have been slowly thinking this just makes more sense. What we're trying to make work now can only breed constant discord and inequality. Not to even get started on the ever constant flow of corporate mergers under the guise of being beneficial to the public. The law of supply and demand plainly shows us that less competition equals higher prices and less power to consumers.
Bingo.
the world really trynna outsmart god
A strong revival of the 10th amendment would facilitate this
Destroying Islam is much more important
I am very pleased to have found this video. Ever since about 1970 I have considered myself a decentralist — probably influenced by Ralph Borsodi, though I didn't know the source of such thinking at the time. On the internet I have often searched for "decentralism", and found — even as I now type this — that the word is not recognized. The word "decentralization" mostly just yielded business management discussions and in any case to me identifies a process more than a believer in the process. Your discussion is the best that I have found, though little by little I notice that men like Nate Hagens and Simon Michaux are coming around to that approach.
It might interest you to know that back in about 1973 I self-published a "The Decentralist Manifesto" as part of a larger work. More recently I "published" that manifesto on YouTube. I there read it aloud. You can find that, if you are interested, at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuJbg6eLC7Y1YNxlhX72ELx7S6jJQ3O8I
This channel is so funny it's like pseudo-philosophy for the alt-right. You people are so clueless.
₿ was giant leap in facilitating this possibility.
People are essentially tribal
Right, so we go back to tribal living after all this progress and all it takes is one tribe to attack another tribe, then alliances are made, nations grow into superpowers, and we're back at square one. Remember, we started out as a decentralized society.
This just seems like some right wing libertarian fantasies that most people know does not work in practice at all lol
The idea is amazing but its not viable. The reason being greed, ambition and a need for meaning. The 98.9% of human history was similar to the idea of decentralised small community government. Why did that change?
Because of:
i) Monotheistic religions whose basic premise is the existence of one God, theirs. Due to which it does rely on conquest and conversion to validate its idea.
ii) Greed and ambition. Which led to the colonialism of world and the pre industrial colonial wars and race. Which also gave rise to the modern state.
In today's world their is another reason why Governments have to be huge and thats the existence of huge economically powerful companies and the upcoming death of small businesses. Without strong governments it will be imperative that such companies take over. Which might lead to a worse future than the one we already have.
And the solution for this would require a conscious effort to go against all incentives that come with modernity which would be financial security, comfort, cheap goods, etc. So the idea seems great but its not viable.
This idea is amazing but I don't think it should extend to towns and cities but rather to countries the size of England and Scotland, or the states of the U.S.
In order to decentralize power, it would be necessary to disabuse the electorate of the absurd notion that governments are benevolent gods that are willing and able to bring about a heaven on earth, if only we give up our independence.
The optimal size of a political unit is one.
How hard is it to get five friends to agree on which restaurant to go to? How do you imagine you can get 5,000 people to agree on anything? And where there is disagreement, what then gives one group the right to overrule the others?
There is no moral, ethical, or logical justification for any form of government of any size.
With all the pork barreling about decentralization ive been thinking about it quite alot and truly believe its the way of the future if complimented by capable public transport…
only if you're still in a coma
Didn't like this narration. Too much Stewie Griffin.
GK Chesterton
Helaire Belloc
J.R.R Tolkien
E.F Schumacher
look em up for an idea of subsidiary
A smaller community is always better managed which invites a superiority complex, that they're the right ones as they've been prosperous. This stimulates them to overpower the neighbour community and hence the vehicle of large nations start running.
Important and timely content. Thank you. I like that idea that the unification of the state is the thing that will drive its destruction. That gives me hope, Because there definitely is a push for a one world order, I just watch The Great Awakening, about the World Economic Forum. Very scary shit. Anyway, keep up the good work. It is important.
Yes we should be living in healthy communities as our ancestors did for thousands of years before money and power hungry dicks took over
A wonderful example of community triumphing over states is the first Hussite war in Bavaria during which communities with a shared belief banded together to resist and defeat basically every world power around them who wanted to persecute them as heretics.
in my opinion the biggest problem is natural resources in each decentralized state will dictate the state’s power.
The Holy Roman Empire aka Germany lasted 1000 years of decentralization and worked great hundreds of small kingdoms
wouldn't this just extend globalization
Thanks for the video, i agreed with all what u saide until the part concerning wars, the arguments arent applicable. Thus if we want to apply the ultimate decentralisation then all countries should be decentralized as well.
This is pure trash, dude. 😅
This video is relevant to this topic of decentralization. Also explains inherent reasons cities and rural areas diverge politically:
The City State Solution: How to Avoid a Civil War or National Secession in These Dis-United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q427saV3PRs
All good points. Bottom line, society needs to be organized as a federalist, capital-owning democracy. Each a form of decentralization. I talk about it at my channel – Ivory Tower Populism.
One of the problems with balkanization is people live where tney live. They care about their family and History. If everyone was an elite who thought they can just move and travel – we wouldn't have these problems anyways
Not going to happen. "Think Big", and "Bigger is better" rule.
Hcgv
Mate I missed your voice in this video 😢
Intelligence and hierarchical thinking together are a absolute recipe for extinction. There are BAD people who just have a special way of pushing people's inner "buttons", famously Hitler, Stalin, these kinds, who people worship and follow with such absolute religious fanatical fervor (some current "people" could be sited…) though NOT because they have any MERIT. This has to be cut out of humanity before it's technology finally finishes murdering the world.
There is only one, tiny problem….how does one enforce a decentralized planet? If you can't keep everyone decentralized, a major power WILL arise and ruin it for everyone.
The thing is there will always be a minority or as you put it "in some cases a majority" who differ, it seems humans by nature will never cease to differ.
Why did he leave out that fact that world majority peoples were largely living this way pre-european invasions? Europeans till this very day continue to dominate and forcefully dictate (directly or indirectly) how these nations should be governed. Clearly Europeans and their offshoots (ie China, Russia etc) are largely the problems to world peace and stability.
“Let’s take it back to indigenous tribes” – Killah Priest
I dedicated my novel, #Cosmonauta #Francesco to a decentralized future world.
SOLUTION: YouTube video "Global Declaration of Independence – Fight the Power"
I like everything about this presentation. Thank you so much for your hard work and wonderful ideas!
For anyone who likes this video and hasn't read The Sovereign Individual, I think it's a must read.
Decentralization is a must…. although fight to create monolithic centralized global system is on. Must resist.