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A quotation from Henry Commager

Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

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#ToughTimes, #PseudoSolutions, #SimpleSolutions, #nationalism, #jingoism, #Hate, #Xenophobia, #Othering... Anyone noticing the similarities? What could possibly go wrong?

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@jmkorhonen
1st, a comment as to the number of tweets.. are your server text limits that small? It's much easier to read when not chopped up into sound bytes. :)

I did not see 'scale' mentioned. For example, what knowledge medium is used for communicating the common desire of 1 resource? Word of mouth in a village? Front page ads in the NYT? I think it's important to include it.

The formation of #society IS concentration of #power. It is the one power that rules all others, forming from consensus & unity. How that power is structured means everything, as you've delineated.

The evolution of #systems is such that, when initial structures are no longer functioning for the survival of the whole, the internal flow distribution will reconfigure in a collective phase change. "Redistributing" is not as efficient as correct, #resilient initial distribution. Unfortunately, human social structures are manipulated outside of normal physics by those who have the power to do so, and are extremely resistant to change once established.

At the same time, these concentrations of power into the hands of the few inevitably lead to systems failures. The piece-meal application of band-aids over these problems can extend the life of the status quo for generations, but will always crop back up eventually.

In order to break this cycle, we have to move past the competition schemes. Like #Science, basic 'survival' technology needs to be open & shared, with the intent that our neighbors being more #SelfSufficient means they won't end up at our door with desperate plans and severe consequences.

Our #philosophy around #democratic, egalitarian living must be ported over to the collectives, and allowed to break away from #NationState structures back to #CityStates, with regional agreements between sovereign, fully distributed democracies. (not the #faketocracies that exist today)

Everything that we desire for individuals must also be applied to our plural, compound bodies. This requires a fairly significant change in the #anthropocentric views that nationalism and other forms of bigotry & #jingoism drive. That is nearly impossible to do in the conditions of scarcity & #inequality, which are of course, favored by the elitists in power who benefit from them.