Now, troll, don't let your desire to win debates lead you into silly statements like "Which do you suggest to whittle the numbers down to a size where your ideas would work, LH.
A hot war or a bloody plague?
Or maybe we could just drug everyone and brainwash them."

No, I do not recommend those alternatives, and never have. I am in favour of freedom, didn't you know? It is the existing $ySStem which drugs and brainwashes people every day of their lives, through commercial advertising, and the marketing of addictive substances and habits without regard to the harm done in the process.

What I recommend is: a great deal more local self-sufficiency in society, and a great deal more local autonomy...coupled with a centralized, consistent and coherent body of legal protections on an equal basis for all citizens.

The latter is exactly what normally already exists in a democratic country, by virtue of its Constitution and Bill of Rights (as in the case of Canada or the USA, for example). A centralized legal system guarantees the normal rights and obligations of the citizenry, through the action of the police, the courts, the bylaws, etc.

What we LACK desperately is more local autonomy in an economic and cultural sense. We lack local small industries owned by local people, local food production adequate to meet local needs, local artistic outlets, locally managed media, and so on. With locally empowered communities, not so dependent on giant multinationals, you have a far more democratic and flexible situation and you are not so dependent upon distant power structures.

So, you see, I am in favour of small scale capitalism. Very much so. I am opposed to mega-scale corporate capitalism, just as I am opposed to mega-scale Communist management of the economy and the arena of goods and services. They both lead to a loss of local autonomy, and situations where the right hand doesn't know (or even care) what the left hand is doing.

And my personal solution to the present situation is simply to: network with people who share my ideas in a useful manner...and if I find a group who share my ideals, to work with them as much as I can. There are such groups. I don't expect YOU to live like I do, nor will I interfere with you if you don't wish to.

Beats hell out of sitting there and saying: "That's just the way it is, and I can't change it, and anyone who disagrees with me is either a fool or a Communist of some kind."

I don't get the impression you're really even trying to think out what I'm saying most of the time.

- LH