Ongoing today is the distribution of technology to individuals that enables them to produce goods and services. There is a lag time necessary to distribute new tech, and since advance is effected by institutions, there is a temporary institutional increase in power. The more advanced the technology, the more power it delivers and the shorter the lag in distribution. As a result, decentralization always results from technological advance, and decreases the power of institutions because they are centralization of power, and does so ever faster as time goes on.

Cameras and communications technology once solely possessed by institutions are now nearly ubiquitous in the possession of individuals. Recently facial recognition has emerged and already apps that enable its use by individuals have become available. In short, institutional power is the result of centralization, and decentralization is increasingly empowering individuals and reducing institutional power. Steem distributes financial surveillance to individuals formerly potential only to financial institutions.

Some of the most egregious powers used to prey on individuals by institutions are surveillance, violent force, and financial predation. We can today see that these technologies are being decentralized as means of production of hardware and software facilitate individual possession of those powers.

I cannot see any way that institutional power can be maintained going forward, as technology enables individuals to do themselves what has previously been only possible through centralization. Censorship, whether just of data, or by destruction of civilization itself and setting us back to the stone age, can only delay this process. As long as the laws of physics make it more efficient to distribute means of production than centralize it, and humanity continues to advance technology, only our extinction can actually stop decentralization from rendering institutional power obsolete - and extinction renders institutional power obsolete.

All that is necessary to overcome corrupt institutions is to gain the personal means to produce goods and services previously only possible to institutions, and each adoption by an individual of means of production exponentially increases decentralization by multiplying distribution and development, and no other means of doing so exists.

If you would be free and live in a free society, adopt such decentralized means of production as are convenient and profitable in your individual circumstances. You produce information via this post that reduces the power of the enemedia and benefits all free people by doing exactly that. That natural process of adoption of means that empower us is replicated across every industry, and will continue until institutions no longer are able to corrupt society by centralization at all.

Thanks!