This documentary makes a powerful argument that there is only one way to save the future – armed central authority must be abolished, giving way to a world of decentralized voluntary communities.
Political power, armed central authority with states and war. Is this all just a part of human nature? Is it the inevitable conclusion for modern human communities? Or is this nothing more than a deliberate construct of violent suppression created by relatively few in order to control the many? If so, could it more properly be called an aberration?
The book and movie Engines of Domination offers a theory of political power as a tool for making tools of human beings — an engine that converts human energy into authority and privilege for the rulers. Invented in the Bronze Age, brilliantly refined for six thousand years, today the engine has caused a human emergency that threatens to destroy our world.
This documentary makes a powerful argument that there is only one way to save the future – armed central authority must be abolished, giving way to a world of decentralized voluntary communities. But, make no mistake, it would be an experiment – a highly optimistic one that is predicated upon the belief that human nature is inherently innovative and cooperative, not inherently destructive and dominating. This film takes a historical lens to the psyche of both psychopathic elites and their slaves in order to arrive at a far more peaceful conclusion to that which we see around us today.