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Free Societies
Is there actually a Democracy, or are we run by an invisible oligarchy? All societies, throughout time, have had a form of canceling membership, but canceling out voices seems like the biggest challenge to our present conception of what means to be in a free society. There are mores ways to define untouchables and the ingroup than mere economics alone, but economic indicators have been the preferred method for discrimination over the last 200 years. It is also a form that has outlived its usefulness. In a technological society, where everyone is relatively equal in terms of productive value because machines do the majority of the hard work, how do you decide who’s in and who’s out? Because that’s where we are headed as a society, which mean increase the ferocity for which we as a people seek to find identity.
The Will factor fills like a mirror into this conversation. It’s hard not to discuss the Will factor. Wouldn’t it be wonderful it that was the artifact that got us out of the warmongering archetypal drive for war with Russia?! Will in the news trumps everything. Or, was it exactly the distraction leaders needed to continue their Chess game unquestioned? People were starting to question, following the money trail to who benefits from war.
