At our current juncture on Earth, a leviathan is already running the show, but it isn’t a good one. This Bad Leviathan isn’t clearly defined, as it tries to remain secret and hidden from the view of the rest of humanity. But when you pull back the curtain, there is no denying its existence. Its roots seem to be tied to the banking cartels, stock market, and collusion in politics at the federal and international levels. Massive conglomerates pretend to be in competition when, in reality, they are owned by the same shareholders at BlackRock and Vanguard. Burger King and Popeye’s have a war over whose chicken sandwich is better while simultaneously both kowtowing to the same ownership group. This whole charade is almost as obvious as our political system’s WWE-style fake fighting. Citizens are left arguing over the rhetoric while we are victimized by this massive entity that is corrupting seemingly all of the systems of our planet, robbing the people of both resources and opportunity.
Fortunately, we know some things that this Bad Leviathan does not like. First, it hates transparency. Shedding as much light as possible on all of its secrets is the first step in penetrating the armor of this massive beast. This is why Wikileaks took such a hard blow, and why we as people need a decentralized place for whistleblowers to safely go (like we wrote about HERE).
In the past five years the movement for transparency seems to be tilting in favor of the good people who want better systems for this world. The internet makes keeping secrets a lot harder to hide. But we need to organize better.
The second thing that this Bad Leviathan does not like is decentralization. Any centralized entity is an easy target for it to control. It is so massive, powerful, and good at corrupting things that once it can pinpoint a centralized power source in opposition to it, it usually does not take long before it can corrupt it or ruin it. This is why the decentralization movement has been so detrimental to it. The decentralization of money, such as Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, certainly put a dent in the control that the Bad Leviathan had. But the biggest blow has been the decentralization of media. The Bad Leviathan had nearly total control of the centralized news stations and papers for decades and controlled what the people learned about and saw. It was able to persuade people to feel certain ways about each event that unfolded—especially the ones it orchestrated. But the days of the Bad Leviathan controlling the narrative are now fading. Most people no longer trust news sources and instead get their information from alternative decentralized sources that they trust—places like podcasts, independent investigative journalists, and independent media outlets. This loss of control over the narrative is a huge loss to this Bad Leviathan. Look at the public backlash for the recent two wars or for anything health-related. The narrative has shifted so strongly that now we are seeing a decentralization of another point of control the Bad Leviathan has held its grips on: the food supply. In the last five years, more and more people are realizing that our food is causing most of our chronic disease (like we wrote about HERE). Some people estimate that 85% of all healthcare costs are caused by bad food. Because of this, many people are turning back to local farmers, organic farming, and even growing their own food, raising chickens, livestock, and more.
But this Bad Leviathan still has firm grips on several very important systems including the political structure, academia, medicine, and science. What can humanity do to further end the reign of this Bad Leviathan? We can build our own leviathan—a GOOD LEVIATHAN. And how do we do that? We learn how to harness the power of collective intelligence and create high-trust systems where we band together as problem solvers, financiers, and more, and combat the corrupt systems with new systems that are 100% transparent, decentralized, and, more importantly, systems that based on results.
We wrote about this process HERE, but we have good news. We are building a platform for all of humanity to use collective intelligence on. It will be open-sourced—by contract—and everyone will be able to make adjustments and use it as needed to form high-trust groups—SWARMS—that can be fused together to form a leviathan of our own. Stay tuned. Or, better yet, check out SwarmAcademy.ai and learn more about this amazing power that humans possess that we are not tapping into yet, and we should be. Collective intelligence is real, testable, and is the way out of these bad systems.
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comparing our elections to a WWE-style match is so accurate. I have never heard it put so plainly and so spot on!
Hard pass on Leviathan. Decentralization is key, and even a good Leviathan has, as its purpose, to rule. And ruling by nature is centralized, accumulates power, and becomes evil. Hobbes was wrong about human nature. We don't need him, nor his evil monster of the deep.