Context...

[In response to the rediscovery of decadence of Western society...]

Remember that in the West the commercial state was chosen in reaction to the previous holy fiefdoms in which almost every individual was at daily risk of death from starvation, disease, war, and whims of the nobility. The West's most abusive commercial fiefdoms are far more humanitarian than the gentlest lords of the past or who govern two-thirds of the world's population today.

The ability to hate the powers that be for interfering with our Blackberries required over 400 years of empire-building and systematic exploitation of most of the world's population, at least the last 150 of which were widely broadcast to the beneficiaries, and _now_ is the moment that we choose realize that the implementation has not scaled well?

And the most serious complaints about the superstructure are that the abstract bit twiddlers are preventing individuals and communities from self-actualizing, despite the ability to communicate and collaborate with any of billions of individuals and communities in the free world at no personal cost? Or is the dissonance that some groups have successfully broken from the default parasitic mediocrity to rally as communities around different interpretations of freedom?