monitoring the abyss

As the monetary and governance systems become more predatory, they provide less and less of any value to society.  We should then expect to see a rise in (a) monetary alternatives; and (b) participation in alternative social institutions that can provide the goods and services people need.

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Its not entirely possible to predict what form these will take.  For one example, my local newspaper ran a headline article today on the rise of barter between small businesses.  As governments fails to deliver any services, where will people turn?  Gangs? Mafia? Private judicial services such as arbitration and mediation organizations?

There is this about "velvet revolution":  http://aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html

To a point, people will tolerate large inequities.  But, they also do what they can to survive and prosper.  If they perceive the better route lies in the "gray market," it is inevitable that is where they will go.  It is no longer possible to simply move to some wilderness, so survival is likely to involve various means of  socially "opting out" while remaining within the physical jurisdiction of formal governance systems.