ZACHARY.SUNFORGE on Nostr: For a nation of dignified, free citizens to exist, it is not enough for that nation ...

For a nation of dignified, free citizens to exist, it is not enough for that nation to have a collective force over which a majority of citizens wield theoretical soft power (democracy). The individuals and families that make up society must also directly wield practical hard power themselves.

This means some meaningful portion of families must have physical possession of their own energy, weapons, transportation, land, and more.
But today this also means free citizens must have genuine ownership of all their computers, including all embedded devices, as without that, physical possession no longer necessarily means true ownership.

If the free citizens of the nation can't be trusted with this hard power, then a culture compatible with liberalism has already been defeated and the people will never have freedom, dignity, or genuine rights of any kind until a culture compatible with these things is restored.