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The state has always been the pinacle of all evil throughout history. The center insists it is the only legitimate source of law, taxation, courts, and armed force. From Vercingetorix to Makhno, the state apparatus murdered and executed all true leaders while using heresy/rebellion/banditry/extremism to convert political centralization into moral necessity. Remedies: 1. Exit over voice From nomads to frontier settlers to digital communities, liberty survives longest where people can leave. This is already articulated by Étienne de La Boétie: Tyranny persists because people continue to participate. 2. Polycentric power (no single vertical) Liberty persists where power is fragmented, redundant and non-hierarchical. Examples (temporary but real): Medieval free cities Stateless borderlands (Scott’s “Zomia”) Early Swiss cantons Pre-tsarist Caucasia Certain pirate enclaves Short-lived federated revolutions (Ukraine 1918–21, Spain 1936) 3. Material independence precedes political independence Historically, people are free only when they are hard to tax, track, and conscript. That means: Control of food/energy Peer-to-peer exchange Low fixed capital exposure Self-defense capacity Political rights follow after, not before. 4. Technological asymmetry (new, crucial factor) This is new relative to most of history: Cryptography P2P networks Stateless money Censorship-resistant communication These restore exit at scale, temporarily reversing the state’s legibility advantage. They do not abolish the state — but they raise the cost of domination.
It's absurd that central planning — even through proved by history to be ineffctive without centralized vertical — is picking up velocity within public domain and intelligentsia of the Western world. #decentralization