One of the secrets the institutional establishment would like to keep from the rest of us is the existence of worldwide pressures to decentralize political power. While political systems seek to extend their authority through increased police and military powers (as in America) and through the creation of such supra-national political structures as the European Union or the World Trade Organization, these practices are really desperate efforts to forestall the further decline of political authority throughout the world. A principal manifestation of such decentralizing tendencies has been the growth of political secession movements. From the collapse of the Soviet Union … Continue reading Secession = Liberty