{"id":74,"date":"2017-10-08T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-10-08T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:56:59","slug":"centralization-of-power-is-not-beneficial-to-ordinary-people-it-is-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/08\/centralization-of-power-is-not-beneficial-to-ordinary-people-it-is-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Centralization of power is not beneficial to ordinary people; it is bullshit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZYcjVC2rRQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lK83a3gwj-k\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTMxfAkxfQ0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leopold Kohr,<a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/kohr\/kohr.html\"><em> The Breakdown of Nations<\/em><\/a>, 1957, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Kohr proposed a\u00a0breakdown of Europe into smaller chunks, and then federating them together; not unifying them through a central government.<\/p>\n<p>A Europe of Little States: \u00a0This map shows approximately the <i>genuine <\/i>component parts of Europe, historically subdividing the great powers, products not of nature but of force. Being all equal in size they are ideally fit to form a successful federation. Thus Europe&#8217;s problem &#8211; as that of any federation &#8211; is one of division, not of union.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/kohr\/8europe.gif\" width=\"546\" height=\"750\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E. F. Schumacher, <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/schumacher\/small\/small.html\"><em>Small Is Beautiful:\u00a0Economics as if People Mattered<\/em><\/a>,\u00a01973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations, 1957, 1978. Kohr proposed a\u00a0breakdown of Europe into smaller chunks, and then federating them together; not unifying them through a central government. A Europe of Little States: \u00a0This map shows approximately the genuine component parts of Europe, historically subdividing the great powers, products not of nature but of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/08\/centralization-of-power-is-not-beneficial-to-ordinary-people-it-is-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Centralization of power is not beneficial to ordinary people; it is bullshit.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}