The Quest for an Empire - TQE

The quest for an empire – powerful enough to deter all potential enemies and thus secure peace and prosperity for its subjects!

How did humanity try (and keeps trying ) to achieve this dream, where did we succeed and when and why did we fail?

I an attempt to discover a pattern I noticed that:

It obviously starts with concentration of power to achieve security, followed by large development, defence and ideological projects. Soon concentrated power leads to abuse, abuse erodes support for the government and ultimately the empire fails. Therefore, better systems – those with a better chance of survival are those that have implemented better governance. Good accountability is essential for good governance. Therefore, in essence, accountability is indispensable for sovereignty.

Associations and Governance

Assumption:

People form associations to solve difficult problems they are unable to solve alone. Elites emerge within associations to lead and manage them. Elites may misunderstand their own interests as contrary to the other stakeholders and become corrupt.

Therefore, systems should be established and constantly improved to ensure the interests of all stakeholders are considered and pursued.

Elites exist only within associations.  Associations exist only when people come together to solve particular problems.

Governance systems need constant updating because corrupt elites will tirelessly and incessantly work towards beating the system. That updating is difficult to achieve because by definition it’s the elites who will investigate what needs to be updated and the corrupt part of them may take over/hijack that task.

Foolishness

We are all kings and queens regardless of our foolishness. For foolishness is humankind's disease. There is no dumb duck, no silly cow...