John Michael Greer goes "back to basics" in this short essay on his blog, discussing the death of the parasitic middleman and what it may mean to keep him undead...
He obviously has a perspective friendly to small businesses and political decentralization, but is brave enough to admit that even a centralized authoritarian regime might do away with the "lenocrats" in favor of a more classically productive economy. See: Russia.
In many places, I suspect that the small bizniz/decentralist agenda will remain a petty bourgeois utopia, the future instead being a power struggle between highly centralized governments giving the people at least something they want/need, and ditto governments giving the people the middle finger (and then shoot at them). But yes, the governments will overtime become less and less bureaucratic and more based on the personal competence and/or charisma of a Bonaparte.
In due course, the West will elect its very own Orban, Modi or Putin...
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