What Is Energy: A Guide to Understanding the Theory of Data Part 1
Statism is a general term that applies to some degree to just about every type of socio-economic structure you can think of. That’s because in all of them, from capitalism to fascism to communism, there is some level of state control. Obviously more in some than in others. Certainly, capitalism allows for a lot more individual freedom than the other two isms mentioned and pretty much any other that has been tried before. Still, there is some level of control that is given up by sovereign individuals. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they are individuals who should be sovereign.
What is interesting is that all of these systems at least begin by people choosing to give up some control to a centralized government. Eventually, the government is given enough control that it begins to take whatever more control it wants regardless of what the people have actually chosen. That’s when you get various forms of despotism, from those we are most familiar with like fascism and communism to oligarchies lik