I used to be surprised by this but that was probably 20 years ago now. I mean the same concept can be applied to the power of the President in the US. Obama ran for office on the abuse of power by Bush. Then he did zero to reduce the power of the office. That's just one example. In the US every election I think of how absurd it all is. Each side uses scare tactics about how the other is gonna use power to oppress in some way. No one talks about actually fixing that issue. Why? Because they don't want to reduce the power. They just want to use it.

Now, why doesn't the public get this? Well, most are tuned out for the most part and only listen to the surface level stuff on the news or social. The ones that aren't tuned out are only tuned into their team's propaganda. Its like the federal reserve. No one talks about the ring of power. They only talk about what they will do if they have power. It has never entered the mind of most people to destroy the ring.

I'll just say this. I didn't find the liberty movement (libertarianism, anarchism, volunteerism) because I was reading over different world views. Like many others, I'm wired to ask questions and find problems and look for solutions. I recall many conversations with conservatives back in the early 2000s about how many things would backfire on them. The gun would be pointed back at them. Then I started realizing I wasn't alone in this thinking and found like minded thinkers much smarter than me.

I just don't think most people think about this stuff. They are thinking about the immediate. They are easily manipulated and redirected into the two or three camps. I don't even think its some conspiracy. I just think its incentives creating a system that works for those at the top.

And to be clear. Destroying the ring in our case is largely a mental thing. If the state ceases to be at the center of our minds it will eventually fall on its own.