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Don't Fall for Shams

Virtually every region on Earth is under the dominion of a government or group of governments. The book has much to say about the concept of government, but Earth alternatives aren't presently comparable to those at Option. Moving toward a more agreeable Earth requires knowing in which direction such destinations might be found.

Two major cultural traps on Earth arise in part from unawareness in the population of exactly what's been imposed on them. At last update to this page, 87% of Earth's populace were subjects of sham governments—thugocracies that in many cases rely on false narratives to support a pretend legitimacy.

While the freer countries understandably feel obliged to invest heavily in defense and intelligence efforts, the threat posed by the thugocracies really needs to be addressed at the root causes and enabling factors. Apply open acknowledgement that the tyrants have positioned themselves at the tops of pyramids of intimidation and murder (from which, simply walking away is usually not a survivable option). Decline to help them prop up their pretensions of being civilized.

⟲ Sham Governments

Ignore the veneers for the moment. There are some simple tests that can be used to detect a sham government.

Major change impossible
If, short of violent revolution or cultural collapse, it is not possible to make a major change in leadership and law, at least every few years, it's probably a sham government.
Non-credible elections
If opposition candidates end up dead or imprisoned; if elections get delayed or cancelled; if candidates are all government or party picks, with no effective input from the populace; if vote tallies have nil transparency; and/or voters are not validated for eligibility or duplicate voting, it's probably a sham government.
Sham elections
If in addition to having most or all of the non-credible features, your participation in the charade might be mandatory, and not via secret ballot, it's a sham government.
Was this site legal?
If it was ostensibly illegal for you to access this site, you probably live under a sham government. If you don't have open access to the global internet, that confirms it.
Only the victims are disarmed?

So what is the veneer?
The top two forms of pseudo-governments on Earth have tribo-parentalist (collectivist) veneers and/or religious veneers. These are followed by genetic veneers (hereditary monarchies), and frank gang/cartel thugocracies that may not even make any pretensions about their pyramids of intimidation.

The book covers the main problems with Earth governments. You need to avoid providing endorsement to any. Two could use further attention.

⟲ There are no Communist Countries

dark pyramid of tyranny (tyramid) It's astonishing that so few on Earth recognize that there are no ‘communist’ governments on Earth. They are all thugocracies, which happens almost immediately after the revolution or election establishing the tyranny. Within the system, those identifying as “communist” fall into one of several categories:

The intimidator class
are the exploiters who planned, recognized, exploited or merely allowed themselves to be locked into the the absolute power structure of the pyramid of tyranny.
The frustrated fanatics
don't understand why the system didn't deliver the promised utopia, and find themselves unable to change it. If they remain vocal, they are ostracized from power, treated as enemies of the state, exiled if they are lucky, and murdered if they are not.
The patient gullibles
keep expecting the promises to be fulfilled.
The resigned serfs
don't dare allow themselves to harbor skepticism.
Other useful idiots
also exist outside the region.

Those in categories 1, 2 & 5 cannot be expected to admit the reality of the situation. Category 1 would be devoured by the pyramid if they tried. Categories 2 & 5 have invested their self-esteem in the sham.

⟲ Sham Thugocratic Theocracies

tyramid with phantom eye If identifying correct religion were a self-evident matter, it would hardly be necessary to say so. Question Zero abides.

But there are hallmarks of sham religions (not all of which presently possess tyrannical power). This checklist might help to identify them:

If the religion started as a mid 20th-century bar bet, it's probably a sham.
If you cannot join the religion, but have to be born into it, it's probably a sham.
If the religion prohibits reproduction, but reproduction is still biologically possible for the members, and happening, it's probably a sham (and raises the question of why it's still around, if applicable).
If it demands, encourages, suggests, endorses, or merely tolerates the use of intimidation, assault or violence to proselytize the religion, it's a sham. The book notes the problem with this.
If it advocates actual genocide “death to …”, it's a sham, as it begs the question of why the deity created/allowed the confrontational situation, yet seems unable to alter it.
If it demands, encourages, suggests, endorses, or merely tolerates the use of intimidation, assault or violence upon apostates, it's a sham.
Indeed, ignore the words: do the actual actions of the adherents suggest they they've mistaken some daemon for their deity?
If the religion second-guesses the deity's perfect design, by performing non-consensual surgical mutilation of youth, it just might be a sham.
If your birth chromosomes get you subjected to further gender-based tyranny, it's a sham.
Regardless of whether or not there is a ‘state religion’, are other religions tolerated? If not, it's a probably a sham.
If key historical assertions about the founder or the text(s) are contradicted by actual evidence, well then.

⟲ Choose Your Targets

Consider the notional country of Serfaria and its current tyrant Feckless Facade. Speaking of “what Serfaria wants” or “what the Serfarians want” is falling-for-it. All that matters is what Feckless wants, and what the empowered members of the Facadian Party ‘tyramid’ think he wants.

Name the game, and don't play the game.