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Learning that paper borders are not borders and that second amendment you had was important, yes?

By the way, Americans in the interwebs like talking as if that second amendment were an outlier in the world.

Actually such concepts existed even in imperial China.

Even in USSR the founding myth postulated that it's a revolutionary state and a revolution against reaction is a right and even a duty.

Except it works when everyone believes in it. When people start believing in paper borders and stop believing in power, they lose power.

I'm talking, of course, about weapons in wider sense. Scopolamine is a weapon. Even alcohol is a weapon. Knowledge is a weapon. Ability to process knowledge is a weapon. Predictive power is a weapon - what those big companies are investing into. Conditioning since kindergartens and schools is too a weapon.

The point is that everything in a society should be accessible and democratized and non-monopolized, because everything of value is a weapon, and things without value don't survive evolution.

(Of course, evolution will work either way ; but that doesn't support any strategy, because any choice at all will advance the bloodline, the population, the biome.)

A volunteer should be able to participate in everything, ideally.

There are some people who like hierarchies and "natural" violent relations, can't decide if closer to Exupery's Citadelle or to fascism. Sometimes very intelligent, but misguided. Those people would probably say I'm misguided and nature specializes.

Nature does everything. Nature specializes in small populations with limited connectivity, nature spreads and smoothes out differences in big populations, creates symbioses and different biomes. Nature does what's best where it's best and is perpetually being optimized for just that. Which is my point that they argue.