@mrman I'll take it another step further, for argument sake (meaning, discourse to revile truth, not a quarrel)
Mass humanity has been sold lies for millennia, and how the truth has not been relieved is a testament to the corruption of man.
The lie is that the efficiency of scale is always true, and incorrectly applied to politics, religion, even when it's Gore Industries proved it is even stupid in some cases for economic factors with corporations.
Scale, growth of an organization, causes it to include more and more people as "middlemen."
While one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch, one poison apple can kill all that eat the pie.
The larger any structure grows, be it political or religious, the chance of corruption does not only scale with the growth, it increases exponentially with the growth, giving much higher probability of a "poison pill" among it's structure.
Tribalism is the answer, not artificial constructs of power with closed views focused on singular goals. Tribalism is how, NATURALLY, man is willing at an individual level to choose which tribe he wants, and tribes tend to fragment when possible upon disagreement rather than cause excessive harm to their own groups minority positions.
But, I've also invented my own version of "tribalism" there, so I'm totally full of shit on all of it, and seeing things how I want to, and I'm a single person who's been very "programmed" by my experiences in the world, and anyone that just "takes my word for it" is a complete fucking idiot, and needs to figure it out themself.
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