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I'm not disputing any of this.
However, peacetime-beaurocracy can get entire-countries exterminated, when it isn't peacetime anymore.
There is a simple principle underlying the choice-of-consensus vs choice-of-hierarchy problem, for ANY organization, including a country:
How much time do you have to decide?
Infinity? then consensus is optimal.
Zero? then you'd better be a ninja/yogi.
The *spectrum* of optimal-structure-for-decisions obviously has lots of wiggle-room, in peacetime.
But if you take 1h to adapt to your plane's sole-pilot being out by heart-attack,
but it only took you 10-minutes to fatally-crash, then you're GONE.
Survival *forces* changing-of-rules from social-and-commercial context.
It is *entirely* possible that the nihilist "mass shooting", except at whole-planet scale ( butchering all systems, smashing all lives, living it up on narcissism, drugs, ego, & popping oneself with a painless bullet when accountability threatens one ) final design of those who've gained enough world-rule to "drive" the cart through money's systems..
.. are going to succeed in exterminating this world & species.
THAT is the context we are in.
NOT "business as usual".
Efficiency or more-death is the requirement.
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Once Canada goes down, then the EU's lifespan is metered, & in months.
That is why we've got to prevent Canada from going down.
As I've said elsewhere: Canada is going to be the new Ukraine.
Mass-shooters, whether firing a pistol, lots of guns, or an entire world-superpower as their weapon, are LETHALLY DANGEROUS to the lives they can hit.
Peacetime is GONE, now, in the West.
The greater the delay in *understanding & adapting-to* that, the greater the percentage-of-lives that will unavoidably be lost among our countries.
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