It’s Our Own Fault. All of it. Corruption. FTX. Voting systems. If a System has been Corrupted, it’s time to bust out the antidote: TRANSPARENCY and DECENTRALIZATION
Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Don’t confuse republicans with conservatives. Vast majority of Repubs want big government. How are progressives decentralizing anything? They want state control of everything and possibly just a few mega corporations that they’re in bed with
Dec 6, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Yes, we share the same vision. I hope that you can help promote the idea of restructuring all governments from vertical to horizontal. Here is an animation I made in 2020 explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8
Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Progressivism vs Conservatism. One believes in the state(centralized), the other believes in the individual(decentralized). The progressive march through the institutions has been completely discredited. Took over a 100 years though. Free markets are the best regulatory mechanisms ever devised. Time to bring it on back!
Nov 20, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
If you want to check out what the original idea for bitcoin can turn into look into the Qortal Project (qortal.org). Local wallet, low power, true peer to peer, smart contracts, blockchain secured chat & websites. Exchanges are only used as on/off ramps from the qortal ecosystem. NEVER leave money in an exchange, pass through only!!!
It's got a ways to go but they've made great progress in the 2+ years since their roll out.
The good news is that the tectonic plates are shifting towards decentralization and localization anyway. This cannot be avoided as we no longer have high EROI (Energy return on Energy Invested) energy. Globalism depends on the cost of transport fuel being negligible (planes, 18-wheelers, cargo ships, heavy machinery). That's not the case moving forward. Food, for example is going to have to come mostly from your local community. This may be mostly Mother Nature driven, but unfortunately the central planner idiots in charge can push us over the cliff much faster as they facilitate the destruction of the systems that we all depend upon. They will do everything in their power to take everybody but themselves to war. Historically speaking, the leaders who usher in war/disease/famine are not in charge when the carnage is complete. When this is all said and done, the Great Reset demons with their central banks and their bio labs will be gone as well.
Epistemic Status: Being written by a 45 year old life-long libertarian/agorist with severe chronic depression, in strong relapse.
Yes, all of this is true, and I've been saying it all for thirty years. And... how the hell do you fight the multi-hydrae'd hydra -- that's like if an octopus had eight fingers on the ends of each of its eight arms, and each of those fingers had a venomous head on the end of it with enough individual and combined processing power in its nervous system to not get in its own way. Oh, and it's the size of a blue whale. What? C'mon, this is *clearly* a magical creature... anyway... -- that runs the system that literally makes the money and then hands it to themselves and uses it to control all of everything else that exists, too? And mostly controls the media that talks about the system. And controls the schools that teach that this is how things should be. And the exponential growth rate is working against us.
Yeah, I sound defeatist. What can I say? I feel defeated. I have been banging on about how the voting system *must* be *provably* trustworthy literally since the '92 campaign season when I was 15 and for whatever reason it really caught my attention about how badly everything was run and how obviously cynical all of the arguments against even making any effort to improve it were.
Even as a libertarian, if a representative government has **one job**, it's to make sure that the people it is purporting to represent are actually reasonably fairly represented, and that the system for counting those declarations of support for one representative or another are "one man, one vote", are handled correctly so that it can be shown that every vote is truly a valid one, and are tabulated correctly.
And here we are, exactly where we are, in 2022. Things have only gotten worse, and most people insist that everything is fine, like the cartoon dog drinking coffee, in the kitchen that's on fire. "They" literally won't let you build your own Twitter (see also: Parler) and if you instead buy theirs, they'll turn around and try to tear it the hell down. (See also: the last several weeks. ;) )
Even as a cypherpunk, I don't see a path to actually winning, or even marginally improving things. :-/
Attaching to beliefs is sloppy thinking. Always keep an open mind. For millenia governments have been subverted, corrupted, and controlled simply by using blackmail, bribes, intimidation and murder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8&t=5s).
If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.
If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.
How do you stop the big money/tech from influencing the people to do their bidding? Does there have to be a cleansing of the non science based climate medical war pushing academia? Afraid the end game is we just end up with fake decentralization.
This looks like a good companion piece to Robert's post on this topic:
• https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/enabling-a-decentralized-world
Politics: “A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Don’t confuse republicans with conservatives. Vast majority of Repubs want big government. How are progressives decentralizing anything? They want state control of everything and possibly just a few mega corporations that they’re in bed with
Yes, we share the same vision. I hope that you can help promote the idea of restructuring all governments from vertical to horizontal. Here is an animation I made in 2020 explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8
It goes with this video that explains how most governments are subverted, corrupted, and controlled by "economic hitmen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8
Horiz. governance trumps economic hitmen. It closes the entrance for them. Please spread if you agree.
Progressivism vs Conservatism. One believes in the state(centralized), the other believes in the individual(decentralized). The progressive march through the institutions has been completely discredited. Took over a 100 years though. Free markets are the best regulatory mechanisms ever devised. Time to bring it on back!
If you want to check out what the original idea for bitcoin can turn into look into the Qortal Project (qortal.org). Local wallet, low power, true peer to peer, smart contracts, blockchain secured chat & websites. Exchanges are only used as on/off ramps from the qortal ecosystem. NEVER leave money in an exchange, pass through only!!!
It's got a ways to go but they've made great progress in the 2+ years since their roll out.
In case you did not see on my other post - https://www.carousel51.com/#carousel-integrated
Aristaeus.Club is a decentralized truth telling club in its infancy. The Purpose of the Club
To gain and maintain a monopoly on truth to rule the club.
To design, maintain, and promote a more perfect voluntary society for the people to thrive on Earth peacefully.
The good news is that the tectonic plates are shifting towards decentralization and localization anyway. This cannot be avoided as we no longer have high EROI (Energy return on Energy Invested) energy. Globalism depends on the cost of transport fuel being negligible (planes, 18-wheelers, cargo ships, heavy machinery). That's not the case moving forward. Food, for example is going to have to come mostly from your local community. This may be mostly Mother Nature driven, but unfortunately the central planner idiots in charge can push us over the cliff much faster as they facilitate the destruction of the systems that we all depend upon. They will do everything in their power to take everybody but themselves to war. Historically speaking, the leaders who usher in war/disease/famine are not in charge when the carnage is complete. When this is all said and done, the Great Reset demons with their central banks and their bio labs will be gone as well.
Epistemic Status: Being written by a 45 year old life-long libertarian/agorist with severe chronic depression, in strong relapse.
Yes, all of this is true, and I've been saying it all for thirty years. And... how the hell do you fight the multi-hydrae'd hydra -- that's like if an octopus had eight fingers on the ends of each of its eight arms, and each of those fingers had a venomous head on the end of it with enough individual and combined processing power in its nervous system to not get in its own way. Oh, and it's the size of a blue whale. What? C'mon, this is *clearly* a magical creature... anyway... -- that runs the system that literally makes the money and then hands it to themselves and uses it to control all of everything else that exists, too? And mostly controls the media that talks about the system. And controls the schools that teach that this is how things should be. And the exponential growth rate is working against us.
Yeah, I sound defeatist. What can I say? I feel defeated. I have been banging on about how the voting system *must* be *provably* trustworthy literally since the '92 campaign season when I was 15 and for whatever reason it really caught my attention about how badly everything was run and how obviously cynical all of the arguments against even making any effort to improve it were.
Even as a libertarian, if a representative government has **one job**, it's to make sure that the people it is purporting to represent are actually reasonably fairly represented, and that the system for counting those declarations of support for one representative or another are "one man, one vote", are handled correctly so that it can be shown that every vote is truly a valid one, and are tabulated correctly.
And here we are, exactly where we are, in 2022. Things have only gotten worse, and most people insist that everything is fine, like the cartoon dog drinking coffee, in the kitchen that's on fire. "They" literally won't let you build your own Twitter (see also: Parler) and if you instead buy theirs, they'll turn around and try to tear it the hell down. (See also: the last several weeks. ;) )
Even as a cypherpunk, I don't see a path to actually winning, or even marginally improving things. :-/
Attaching to beliefs is sloppy thinking. Always keep an open mind. For millenia governments have been subverted, corrupted, and controlled simply by using blackmail, bribes, intimidation and murder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8&t=5s).
Horizontal governance with extreme transparency blocks this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8). Please spread this if you agree.
If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.
If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.
The definition of truth has become as subjective as the meaning of obscenity.
How do you stop the big money/tech from influencing the people to do their bidding? Does there have to be a cleansing of the non science based climate medical war pushing academia? Afraid the end game is we just end up with fake decentralization.