by Jeff Thomas, International Man:
If left to their own devices, people will tend to come up with a society in which residents treat each other with equanimity and respect each other’s property. They’ll tend to help their neighbours, yet will otherwise respect each other’s privacy.
This is not just happenstance. It occurs for a reason. It’s the most effective way to ensure that peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit are maximized over the long haul.
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So why then, do so many societies seem to begin this way, but eventually devolve into just the opposite? The answer is that they grow to a size in which leaders are no longer equal members of the community, but are in a position above the rest.
And at that point, their self-interest is no longer the same as the self-interest of those they govern.
The ideal size, therefore, is a small society. The ideal leader is an equal member of the community. In fact, this is what keeps him in check.
All right, that’s a nice philosophical observation, but of what value is it to the reader who is up to his neck in bureaucracy and may even live within a collapsing socio-economic system?
Well, people are not potted plants. They have the ability to exit a community that has become overtaxed and corrupt and seek out a community where the leadership has not yet reached the point that’s detrimental to the well-being of the citizenry.
We’re at a tipping-point. The former Free World is approaching a crisis, and all of the countries that make up that bloc are now teetering on the edge of socio-economic decline and, in some, political decline to boot.
In a crisis, if you live in a community that’s already corrupted, it won’t suddenly become enlightened in a crisis; it will likely become unlivable. If you’re one of the only sane people in an asylum, the odds are high that you’ll become a casualty.
Europe, for millennia, has been fought over by tribes seeking to displace each other. Beginning in the early sixteenth century, a new idea arose to seek conquest outside Europe. That meant Asia, Africa and the Americas.
First, European powers created colonies in the far-flung destinations, then they began to fight over those colonies. But one by one, the colonies broke away on their own. Some, like Australia and the US, continued to trade with Europe, prospering in the good times and jointly waging war in the bad.
Not surprisingly, this process only served to maintain the tribal conflicts, although on a grander scale. This ensured an endless competition for power, both at home and abroad.
And of course, the quest for power breeds corruption and oppresses those at home.
But what of those countries that, for whatever reason, were overlooked, or who dropped out of the fray and sought only to be left alone, to maintain the natural order of peaceful and mutually beneficial co-existence? Do they even exist?
Well, in fact they do.
I’m presently in Thailand – the only Asian country that was never colonized by Europe. It was never fought over; Europeans never drew arbitrary lines on the map. The borders exist due to natural boundaries such as mountain ranges, isolating tribes that more or less got along from those that did not.
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