{"id":25935,"date":"2017-09-21T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:20:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:20:18","slug":"the-future-will-be-decentralized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25935","title":{"rendered":"The Future Will Be Decentralized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Future Will Be Decentralized<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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I heartily accept the motto, \u201cThat government is best which governs least\u201d; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe \u2014 \u201cThat government is best which governs not at all\u201d; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Some people live their existence in a great state of dread, convinced a totalitarian, centralized world government of sorts is in our future. Not only do I not think this is going to happen, but I predict the exact opposite will occur. I believe the world has already hit \u201cpeak centralization\u201d and decentralization will be the defining trend of human existence on this planet going forward.<\/p>\n

Naturally, this is just one man\u2019s opinion, but I strongly believe it and will make my case in this piece. When I look around and think about the major trends of our time, they all point in the direction of decentralization, something which invariably scares the living daylights out of authoritarians worldwide.<\/p>\n

Irrespective of what you think of Donald Trump, the fact he was elected proves the power of decentralization in the modern communications and media realm. As was well documented throughout the campaign, the mainstream media came out in clownish and historically lopsided fashion in favor of his opponent Hillary Clinton. We all remember seeing headlines like the one below and then reading stuff like the following.<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump<\/span> has received fewer endorsements from the editorial boards of the nation\u2019s largest newspapers than any major-party presidential candidate in history.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Among the top 100 largest newspapers in America, just two \u2014 the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville \u2014 endorsed Trump.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Future Will Be Decentralized I heartily accept the motto, \u201cThat government is best which governs least\u201d; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe \u2014 \u201cThat government is best which governs not at all\u201d; and when men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1670,15199,4285,16093,1213],"class_list":["post-25935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-centralization","tag-decentralization","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-kriegen","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25936,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions\/25936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}