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Problem is that the system of representative democracy and modern state in general makes that colusion inevitable.

With HRE I might agree, but East Francia was a very, very different beast, since it was created before the process of feudalization happened in the earnest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_duchy https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogtum#Stammesherzogt%C3%BCmer

Actually, the best is the Roman Republic: it was highly politically localized (colonia and municipia had more rights than "sovereign" states in the European Union), but had unified foreign policy, and thus combined the best of both worlds: freedom, adaptiveness and internal resillience of...

That is true. But it is also true that humans are not only evil but stupid as well. If you have one person - or even (or perhaps especially) a group of people holding near-absolute power, you will either have them killing millions through evil, or through stupidity. But the ultimate outcome is...

And lack of freedom just means the lincense for traders and merchants to buy those who make the laws.

So you want a global dictatorship? It is not about powerlessness, it is about freedom. Freedom to self-determination, freedom to live according to tradition and honour, without having a bunch of psychopathic morons overturn everything with laws. Powerful have (almost) always been progressive...

Yet treating it as anything else is nothing but willfull ignorance of the real causes. We may not be able to abolish power, but that does not mean we should ignore its dangers.

Largest genocides were done by Communists (who had powerful state apparatus), Nazis (who had powerful state apparatus), and various colonial powers (who also had powerful administrative apparatus, though not necessarily state apparatus). That is basically definition of a "powerful, big...

Except larger government attracts more psychopaths because it is more powerful. As a result, while it may be technically harder to push the psychopaths' way, in reality it is no less likely - and often more so, because joining powerful government is far more attractive to a power-hungry...

Unfortunately, yeah. And powerful institutions attract psychopaths which means that, as Metallica says, "the soothing light at the end of your tunnel / Is just a freight train coming your way".

Holy Roman Empire. East Francia. Frankish Kingdom. The Heptarchy. Kingdom of Croatia. Kingdom of Poland (pre-1500). Kingdom of Hungary (pre-1526). ... This is basically Tolkien's ideal: https://polcompball.fandom.com/wiki/Anarcho-Monarchism

That argument however applies almost exclusively to modernist states. In other words, a democracy and an absolute monarchy. A traditional or a federal monarchy, especially of a premodern setup, is far superior to either because government as such is much weaker.

That is actually why I became a monarchist. I will be writing more about it in some time, but essentially, by promoting the idea of the government as a legitimate representative of the people, democracy promotes centralization, large government and tyranny. I wrote in more about monarchy here...

https://military-fantasy.com/2021/05/16/tolkiens-ideal-of-monarchy/ https://politicalreactionary.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/tolkiens-ideal-of-monarchy/ A post about Tolkien's ideas and ideals of monarchy.