Theme: Crisis

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/04/we_the_people_are_violent_and_filled_with_rage_a_nation_spinning_apart_on_its_independence_day/COMING APART – FOR GOOD REASONS.

I have spent my life studying this problem and arrived at a much more simplistic conclusion: that it is diversity and scale that are the cause of our conflict, and only dissolution of the empire, and devolution of the central government’s power to the states, that reflect regional values will cure the ill. The european project is failing precisely because of different values exemplified by the protestant north, catholic south, and orthodox east. Not that these religions are the cause, but the values of the different polities, their family structures, their degree of trustworthiness, and their different levels of taste for corruption. The natural course of a divided people on a vast land is to choose between chinese and russian totalitarianism, or european small-statism. And given the empirical evidence, the european model produces the highest trust, most redistributive, polities on earth. Diversity of states is apparently good, and diversity within a state is apparently bad. The reason being that diversity decreases trust. This does not apply only to ethnic diversity, but to political diversity.

The cure is dissolution of the empire, and devolution of the central government, not the construction of a new monopoly religion to rival christianity or islam – which is the secular religion that the author is promoting consciously or not.

No one implements totalitarianism out of ill intention, but out of desire for the suppression of conflict. However, the opposite cure for suppression of conflict is secession and devolution of central power.

But then, as far as I know, only progressives want totalitarianism. Both in American and everywhere else.

Interestingly, out of all factions, its the Tea Party that recommends the devolutionary solution. Strange as it may seem, they are the ones who are correct.