It seems wherever we look public private partnerships are increasingly how governments are remaining powerful enough to have authority over transnational corporations. That is the definition of Fascism, which is necessary for governments because corporations become more powerful than governments, and useful to corporations to prevent governments from destroying them before they become too powerful. If you can't beat them, join them. However this is only one step in this dance, in which the steps are all known, and at the end of the dance the nations of the world end up commodities of private corporations. Do note the difference between nations, which are peoples that have common ethnic and cultural heritage, and countries, which are geographic political entities. When this dance is over, there will no longer be such peoples and there will only be one political entity.
As an Autarch you'd think I would celebrate that demise of collective sovereignty I consider the destruction of individual sovereignty. The truth is that government, while inherently prone to corruption of every kind and stripe that progressively increases over time, isn't actually the problem. It's simply one form of the problem, which is institutionalization that inevitably arises from centralization. The reason governments are prone to corruption that increases over time is that they are institutions. Societies aren't institutions, and equally enable sovereign people to implement common policies, but without institutional bottlenecks that create opportunities for corruption. Only when a society erects an institution, such as a chiefdom, and the chief selects war chiefs, a shaman, and etc. - a government IOW - does corruption have power nexuses to strike. The litany of treachery such war chiefs have committed is inexhaustible, because they have been corrupted.
Government today has a problem. Corporations have become extremely powerful, spanning the globe. Governments have limited geographic extent, which makes them non-competitive with corporations that can outspend them. This is why governments seek to conquer clay, to gain more power to impose, to increase their competitive edge. Governments lose their initial purpose in the struggle to survive and become necessarily focused on that struggle, rather than on remaining the agent of the sovereign people, often a nation, that implemented government to secure their survival and felicity. Today we see the governments of the West sacrificing the nations that instituted them to strengthen government, and this destroys the peoples that turned to government to save them, because the institution of government has been corrupted.
This has been the tendency of centralization since it advented, presumably with agriculture, because agriculture is a collective venture that requires central management. With centralization comes war, government, and religion - all the institutions that we see are imposing institutional power on individual people. While the sovereign individuals that initially turn to centralized institutions to secure their purposes because individuals are non-competitive with groups and if they don't they will be defeated and, at best, enslaved, initially authorize such institutions to act on their behalf, institutions immediately have that authority, and the sovereignty of individuals becomes meaningless.
That is why I am an Autarch, because my sovereignty isn't meaningless, but is what actually exists. Collectives, peoples instead of people, have no sovereignty. They aren't born, don't die, hunger, thirst, or love. The individual people in the collective do those things, and have rights. The collective does not. But collectives have power, and whomever has the power can do as they please to individuals - which is not what the sovereign people of a society ever intended to be done to them when they turned to the institution of government.
But, existing, governments claim authority, claim to have sovereignty, the sovereignty of all the people in the polity. This is wrested from those people, whom become slaves to the government. Again, that is why I am an Autarch, because only remaining individually sovereign reflects the reality that it is individuals that have rights. Consenting to be governed is to consent to be property, and I cannot be property. I cannot delegate my will, my inherent authority over myself, to a new owner. I am ineluctably sovereign, and cannot be anything else. Because the power of a collective has been necessary to survival for millennia, and because people can dissemble, and continually act as ordered as if their will belonged to some monarch, or worse, committee, that owned their sovereign rights, we generally don't even see this as a bad thing, because it enables our survival and the survival of our people continually in conflict with other polities for clay in the intraspecific quest for power.
The first step in the dance, then, is for a people to mutually agree to create government and collectivize their power. The second step is for the government to seize that power, enslaving the people that created it. After some more steps, corporations are chartered and become more powerful than governments because they aren't geographically constrained as are governments. We can see now that the owners of the corporations consider the last step in the dance to be the corporations forming a global government that will wield ultimate power over all, because that is what is happening today.
During this dance of power, the increase of power is continually the goal of collectives. Thus governments often become tyrannies, and this has been the eternal enemy of polities that inevitably causes them to become intolerable to the people whom have the actual power, the sovereign power, that governments treat as inherently theirs, as if governments were born rather than merely being agreements of them that are born sovereign. Sir John Bagot Glubb wrote 'The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival', a brief treatise in which he showed that imperial polities have a lifespan of ~250 years. Lies and tyranny inevitably increase the power of government at the expense of the actual sovereigns, and this eventually becomes intolerable to people, sparking rebellion and overthrow of tyrannical government after much suffering. Alternatives to rebellion are conquest by even more tyrannical governments and creation of empires. All of these institutions eventually fail because the second step in the dance is for the institution to treat it's power as inherent to it, rather than to keep in mind that the sovereign individuals of society at all times retain that sovereignty they are actually born with.
These steps have been taken for millennia, so they are known. There has never been an escape from the dance because the reasons for all the steps do not change. Centralization and collectivization increase political power and only societies that have nominal power survive against enemy polities. However, the immediate susceptibility of polities to tyranny and the inevitability of corruption causes polities to degrade over time, and they fail. That corruption has never been prevented, because pathological individuals arise within society, and no society has ever purged them at birth. There's no way to do that, nor does one man have authority over the thoughts of another, so neither can we smother evil people at birth, nor have we the right to smother them because they don't have the same morals we do once they are old enough to reveal they are psychopaths. If they commit crimes, then we have the right to remove them from our society, which power falls to the polity as the expression of the sovereign individuals of their societal will.
These steps are inherently complex, and are undertaken in myriad ways every time people dance them. The reality of our sovereignty has already been misunderstood and duplicity that institutions are sovereign has been mistakenly agreed, and things only get worse from there because succeeding steps are based on lies already believed, and that never results in reason and truth. Once you believe what is false, you only ever get further from the truth. There's an infinite number of ways to be wrong, and only one truth, so while it's theoretically possible to have two self contradictory false beliefs that produce one that conforms to the truth, the odds of that happening are infinitesimal. However, because all of these things are productive of either suffering or felicity, none of these steps are without feedback, and sometimes common sense is asserted to restrain tyranny. While to my knowledge this has never made any polity immune to becoming too corrupt, I think polities that last several generations, particularly those that survive for >200 years, have best attempted to restrain tyranny with common sense measures to remain tolerable. History shows, then, that the best common sense restraint can do is extend the lifespan of empire to 15 or 20 generations.
There seems to be the delusion common to the Machiavellian psychopaths that have attained to the heights of power in the corporations today that they can impose a global collective institution that can eliminate the potential to collapse by eliminating the intrapolitical competition that has always existed since the advent of centralization. If everything is totally centralized then no competition will ever conquer the global government - no war is the promise. Of course this depends on so oppressing people that they never become able to create a new institution that can rebel and overthrow the global government. This is why we'll eat bugs and suffer 24/7 surveillance in 15 minute prisons. Only reduced to utterly incompetent slaves will we pose no threat of rebellion to resume the dance of institutionalization to the end it always has, with collapse and creation of new polities.
But power also increases in other ways than tyranny. Tech advance increases power by increasing productivity, and the most advanced tech eliminates obsolete tech because increasing productivity of assets creates more wealth, which provides more power than non-competitive production. Centralization advances technology to increase it's power, and this advances societal felicity. An astounding fact about tech advance today is that decentralization of the means of production is the cutting edge of tech advance in every field of industry. There are a variety of reasons for this, but the primary reason is that management is parasitic, deriving it's income from a portion taken from the laborers in the collective through various means depending on the kind of management. Decentralized production eliminates parasitic losses, because it requires no external management, and this enables productive individuals to retain 100% of the wealth they create. Because overlords are almost exclusively psychopaths (seizing power involves violence and psychopaths can commit greater atrocities than properly socially functional people) they, being narcissists, take more and more as they can to increase their sybaritic wealth and improve their standard of living as much as possible. They are the parasites decentralization eliminates.
This is why common sense restraint inevitably fails, because psychopaths aren't capable of common sense or understanding. Their brains are broken in specific ways, and being socially competent is what is broken, so they commit atrocities. This fuels their rise to power in institutions, but erodes the power of the institution they use to do so, and it is their very ability to rise to power that renders them unable to restrain their power. Suffice it to say that automation of production makes the maintenance of hordes of utterly hapless slaves fed bugs in prisons under 24/7 surveillance non-competitive, so rather than support hordes of drugged up gamers, overlords will exterminate them.
The transhumanist agenda seems to be that psychopathic overlords will live forever using a small population of thralls to provide them parts and victims to sexually abuse and torture for their amusement. Without a large population to rise up against them, their global fiefdom will never suffer rebellion, nor any competing polity to conquer it, so their madness and incompetence will never cause their polity to senesce and be destroyed. I hardly need to point out all the flaws in this plan to reasonable and intelligent people, but this is the plan of psychopathic narcissists, and their brains are broken in specific ways that cause them to be immune to reason, particularly regarding their incompetence. They are incapable of humility, which is the basis of wisdom.
Wisdom, based on hindsight, suggests that as long as psychopaths have a common enemy, they can work together to enrich themselves. However, as soon as that common enemy no longer threatens rebellion, they will betray each other and squabble over the spoils of global imperium. They are the very weakness of their totalitarian tyranny that will destroy it. Narcissists are incapable of restraint and do not grasp the exigency their very success creates. There will be no universal empire that persists forever with immortal sybarites enjoying their hapless captives and ever-increasing wealth from automated production. The madmen intent on this will destroy each other even as they implement it, each seeking to strike first as the utter collapse of society leads them to think the time is right. Who strikes last loses first.
Bugpod warrens in 15 minute prisons in which hapless thralls are surveilled 24/7 and grovel for goyslop will be attempted and imposed regionally to indescribable suffering of those affected. The more dependent on collective supply you are the more vulnerable to the suppliers you will be. The more you misbelieve money is wealth, the more dependent on using money to supply you with wealth from collective supply you will be. The more you simply go along to get along with government the more prone to being oppressed by tyranny you will be. These things will make you the easiest victims of the scheme to turn you into hapless proles to be gradually genocided in prisons as automated production replaces you as a source of wealth for overlords, and low hanging fruit is picked first.
Tens of millions have already been killed by the jabs, killed by their willingness to go along to get along. A variety of vectors for further democide are being continually implemented, and the intention is to get to even the most intransigent, independently wealthy, and secure victims eventually. The more intransigent, independently wealthy, and secure your community are, the longer you will resist. Eventually, but long before the last resistance is overcome, overlords will turn on one another, AI will be pushed beyond it's limits to become uncontrollably destructive, and the illusion that money is wealth will concatenate and expose narcissistic psychopaths as the madmen and fools they actually are, bereft of humility and the wisdom it enables, and then intelligent, productive, and secure people(s) will have the opportunity to wrest their freedom from the global technocratic totalitarian tyranny in tatters from intraspecific squabbles for power. Overlords cannot avoid this squabbling. They won't suddenly become sociable when they think they've won. Their brains are broken and they will commit atrocities to gain power in the struggle between narcissists to be the Overlord. There can only be one.
First comes Fascism, then comes freedom. Create productive capacity that you can use to prolong your resistance to being imprisoned in a bugpod, and at all times remember that security is the primary mechanism that will prevent armed thugs from forcibly rendering you to captivity. It is more important that you can defend your food, people, and production than that you sleep in a cozy bed. The internet is becoming a trap, and soon I will not be in it anymore. A matter of days, not years. Take what you can and will from these observations, provide such criticism as you may to enlighten me, and prepare for what is coming. It is inevitable. In the end, decentralization outcompetes centralization in the Space age, and madmen will destroy themselves, so freedom and the prosperous societies it creates will emerge from the ashes of empire and remain thereafter. Productive independent societies of sovereign individuals are more powerful than even the wealthiest overlord. Independent means is the best definition of wealth, and independence is freedom. Freedom and prosperity create felicity, which is what all peoples seek, and Providence has so ordered the universe that decentralization out competes centralization at this point in technological advance. Centralization has been necessary to advance technology through collective manual industry during the long slog from the Stone age to the Space age. Hereafter individuals that merit their wealth and freedom by making it themselves will secure themselves because it will be more economically productive to do so than to form gangs of armed thugs to steal what others produce. The evils of institutions will prevent institutions of government from attaining power over societies of men of merit, whom will simply cooperate to secure their freedom and felicity with greater power than collectives can attain in the wake of the coming catastrophic Fascist tyranny and it's destruction.
Good luck, better skill, and thanks!
