Decentralization ~ Considering Relocation

There is this idea that one needs to relocate to decentralize. Moving away into open land, away from urban areas and away from the civil perimeters of town and community, moving away can be isolating and misleading. Humanity needs to live in community, in the perimeter of families and neighborhoods, like the old agrarian communities of the Appalachians. In this scale, decision-making and social design are centered on community. Within this epicenter, the local government, transparently organized by neighborhoods for the benefit of their people, will replace the national and global centralized powers that be.

These smaller radius's must rely on transparent and accountable individuals who, through merit and public service, honor the responsibility being given to them. The smaller radius makes it easier for checks and balances as the visibility of the appointed community members in decision-making positions steers in favor of majority and consensus. Additionally, short-term appointees and no re-election assure that there will be no career politician in charge. The purveyor of public office will articulate community opinion in a participatory system that votes on issues. In systems like these, one does not have to relocate and abandon ship; we can stay put in our sprawling metropolis and engage in the decentralization of power and renewal of society.

The great advantage of our cities and urban areas is that many neighborhoods and communities are already there, knitting and operating social networks. These social structures are a huge plus in the deployment of a new decentralized economy where community activism and local market activity push away the domination of global economic factors.

With decentralization comes self-reliance. This word has been associated and applied to lonely and rugged self-sufficient types that populate remote areas in off-the-grid homesteads. These self-reliant, rugged individuals have taken matters into their own hands, like the extreme “prepper culture” that foresees the end of civilization; they, along with the elites in their subterranean bunkers, have gotten “out of dodge” and taken proactive measures. If you have the resources and can relocate to a rural area with good soils and water, away from the 5G towers and the chemical warfare of our current home environments, all the power to you.

Self-reliance can also imply resourcefulness within changing conditions. Life is this way, constantly in flux; we have just become habituated to successive new normals in the mindless, steady-state stupor of the hedonistic West, hypnotized by its mass entertainment and propaganda. Self-reliance begins with reconnecting to who you really are. You are a powerful, autonomous, conscious entity navigating the stars, awakening to a renaissance of curiosity and interest in the phenomenal experience we are having here on earth. This will ignite ingenuity and creativity in the hearts of us all. In a refreshing sense, we need to relocate back to where we came from.

By C.C. Brown ~ x.com/cuellarbrown