Society Must Be Decentralized ...

Society must be decentralized. The question is how the government should factor into this. The government is in a unique position of being a relatively unchecked center. It exists to check other centers, but it, itself is relatively unchecked. In the American Republic, the government is supposed to be checked by the population, the ultimate decentralization, but government is a very dangerous power center, because virtually all centralization and oppression which has occurred in the past has been performed by the government.