Friday, January 1, 2021

Will there ever be another ‘Iron Age’ scenario? (Defined by centralised governments’ losing their monopoly over force)

Except this time for the corporations and their current monopoly on force exercised through the same thing.

The Hittites, Mycenaeans and many globalised Bronze Age central governments with professional armies essentially lost their monopoly over force for the first time during that event. All kinds of societies emerged that were previously smothered by them, there was even room for some societies that were more ‘Anarchist/Egoist’ for a time during the dawn of the Iron Age I think.

Historically speaking, you had poor unskilled ‘sea people’ who were able to dispatch chariots with ease and they could raid the Bronze Age elites due to that loss in monopoly of force.

I’m guessing it could also be financial and not necessarily militarily. Will there be another great equaliser next time?

Some people thought Bitcoin would end the financial monopoly of force but it never happened.


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