Thread by @APhilosophae

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Globalists. Money Printing. Two-Party System. Outright Corruption. What is causing the biggest problems within our country right now?

Scale. Scale is causing some of the biggest conflicts in our country right now. The regime is too large. It has gotten out of scale for anything that could even REMOTELY be called self-government.

Human Scale is concept we fail to address, and required if we are to have self-government. The Greek Parthenon was built to Human Scale. It is based upon the size of the average Greek male of the time. This is part of what makes it so appealing to humans. The scale is correct.

Cathedrals are built beyond human scale bc they are intended to evoke the majesty of God. You are meant to stand in awe of them. It’s why Palaces & City Halls, Capital Buildings & National Courts are often so large. They are meant impress the citizenry and make you feel small.

Aristotle said, and I paraphrase here, that everything in nature that has a function has a proper scale, and anything beyond which or below causes dysfunction in that things ability to perform its natural function. Birds that are too large become flightless, for example.

A Republican government is one which the people make the laws that they live under. We have 435 members in the house, one for every 760,000 citizens. Within the next 20 years its expected we have 1 representative for every 1 million people. Not exactly Republican Government.

Could we increase the size of the House? The largest representative bodies that function are around 600. So, 435 isn’t too bad. Since its about average we can’t really grow the house. And if population continues to increase (it will!) representation continues to be diluted.

Madison said we ought to have no more than 1 to 30,000 in a Congressional District. Today, that would put us at 10,500 representatives in the House. A totally dysfunctional number. That would be absurd. Scale is important!

Scale should exist in so that people have representation in their lives. We are still using silly self-government language as if it still exists. It doesn’t. We have televised “townhalls”, “Fireside Chats”, politicians look into the camera and speak directly to the people (330M).

We’re not being honest with ourselves to think we have representation. To talk as if the system as originally outlined still exists is simply keeping our head in the sand. We’ll get no where thinking, planning, or acting in that way. Acting locally may be the only answer.

We’re living in a Hobbesian State with a centralized corporation that has managed to monopolize coercion of citizens while masquerading as a Republic. Until we face reality & begin to plan politically on a local level to correct the issue of Scale, we won’t make any headway. ZERO