Direct Democracy: Everyone is a Chief

 [Waking Times]: Speaking of barbarity, there is perhaps nothing more barbarous than the current indirect, vertical, centralized, hierarchical democracy passed down to us from our ancestors which indoctrinates and brainwashes its citizens into believing it is functional, moral, and just. When really it is only functional in the sense that it has replaced an aristocracy of birth with an aristocracy of avarice—the rule of the rich. That’s not democracy; that’s plutocracy.

The critical difference between a barbarous, hierarchical plutocracy disguised as democracy that surrounds us and a direct, horizontal, decentralized democracy of the future, is the meaning we give individualism itself. It really comes down to a single vital question: will we be fiercely individualistic for each other, or against each other?

In the spirit of “shedding the coat which fitted us as a boy,” embracing the ideal of decentralized self-governance despite centralized government is a direct path toward a truly functional, moral, and just democracy—a direct democracy. A democracy that’s egalitarian, horizontal, decentralized, and fiercely individualistic. A democracy that honors cooperation first and competition second, where security and self-preservation are secondary to freedom and self-sufficiency. A democracy where everyone is a chief..<<<Read More>>>...