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Decentralisation...

Power concentration is at the cost of trust. The people with more power in government seem so less capable of trusting anyone. Indeed it looks like not to trust anyone is part of the training for getting into power position.

Another reason for decentralisation, if concentration of power was more widely spread and far less centralised, there will less reasons to feel threatened or insecure and more  reasons to trust others.

Human inability to trust other humans hits at the very foundation of idea of civilisation.

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Buddha Poornima Meditations, 2015

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