And so; Just like that; a political system based on the rigid guiding of its population, no matter how altruistic its intentions, fundamentally originates from fear. It basically states that; without this system; all hell would break loose – it imagines that without it: few of you would care for either nature or each other.

Lately it appears as if certain more totalitarian ways of thinking are being presented by politics as possible solutions to the challenges we may be facing in our world today. Putting a more controlled system in place in order to fight climate change for instance – probably makes sense to a lot of people. But in thinking a few steps further down the road, or recalling what I last heard about countries who are currently using such regimes...