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"Security" as provided by the Pentagon/MIL complex is an evolution of what the Brits used to do to maintain order across the Empire. After the Empire fell, the Americans basically cut and paste that policy, where the goal is mainly about protecting the flows of capital and trade. Colonial legacy and thinking needs a total reboot. Will die out naturally as boomers trained in that kind of thinking pre-globalization die out.

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> Will die out naturally as boomers trained in that kind of thinking pre-globalization die out.

I don't think it will. There will always be powerful people who want to maintain that power, and wannabe powerful people who want to get that power.

So long as that way of thinking leads to power, there will be people who will follow it.

The problem is not that people are tainted by colonial thinking - its that humans are tainted by ambition.

Look at the Brits. The current gen can't play the same games their grand parents did even if they are well programmed and super ambitious. They have to invent new games. And agree mindless ambition is a big issue.

Cultures that were colonized may have other ways of conceptualizing power, for example as multigenerational stewardship. Because I am unable to think outside colonial ways doesn't mean other ways don't exist.

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