This is a great question. We know people working on two platforms right now. All being funded privately. Both are looking for either help coding or promoting them. Or ways to crowdsource or fund them.
We had the idea of Swarm Force the game (a few articles back) that could generate money. But right now we are sort of stuck in between phases.
We are starting more marketing such as a podcast to keep discussing solutions with everyone.
Maybe the best thing we can all do right now is study high trust decentralized systems, collective intelligence systems, and then help us find ways to keep building. And then hopefully be part of a group problem solving swarm with us soon.
We also need help testing the software and platforms.
In tomorrow’s article we breakdown one of the super interesting projects.
Permaculture is a hell of a good start. I've been doing it for decades and although it has hung in the margins people are getting squeezed by the mafia state and it's making them creative and less greedy/consumerist and so it is in the ascendency now.
Nations have always been run by a "mafia." This is the way of the world-always has been, likely always will be. With the transparency technology has given us, we just see it more clearly.
The first step is to acknowledge we have a major problem and have had this same problem for thousands of years. That is living under the yoke of government. You allow a government to exist (in the form they exist today) and thus you allow yourself to be its slave. Government cannot exist without the master-slave relationship.
Humans can! Government can never be fixed, but humans can find ways to live and prosper without it.
They cannot have the slaves disregarding and ignoring their mandates, laws and dictates. They will do anything to make the slaves (citizens) believe that they, the citizen, cannot live or survive without an over-bearing government of tyrants exerting control for our own good.
The invention and development of government over the ages has created a device whereby nearly anyone can obtain enormous power and influence over others. Unfortunately, this system attracts the dregs of society, the power mongrels and those most fearful of losing control over everything. Government becomes their sole source survival.
Government by its very existance is the enabler of tyranny, terrorism and life long slavery. Riddle me this: why after thousands of years are we still putting up with this crap?
We need systems Crix. If we just go to no systems many many people will suffer. For society to exist we need rules, just not rulers.
The argument of “not government” has to be followed up with “replace it with X”
It also has to come with a plan to go from right now - fully corrupted - to whatever the new system is. With as little suffering as possible.
Your disdain for the mafia state is spot on. But to replace it with nothing is not a real solution. Systems matter. We need ones that cannot be corrupted and that the people are allowed to examine fully, always with radical transparency and ability to alter.
Hopefully, there's a way around the master-and-slave nature of human life. Though, the more I've looked, the less confident I've become that this situation can ever be permanently got around, just as gazelles and zebras have had no way to get around their own predators, absent intervention from some external power. Maybe might over right, slavery of the weak to the strong, is the unavoidable nature of things and evil will always win in the end.
The only way I can understand why evil would run the world is (1) if the world is meant to feed the malevolent whims of a god off-his-rails or the simulation creator (if one posits the world as a simulation). If it's not that, then (2) the world may be a deliberately staged tragedy on which we are to experience certain things, learn things, get stronger, like a field exercise in the military, where you're always developing skills in fighting against some simulated enemy. Or maybe it's to teach our "god" or simulation creator something he wants to know. (Like maybe a simulation's purpose would be to run through scenarios for the benefit of the people outside the simulation, to teach them what works and what doesn't, or cetera.)
This last option seems to have bits of evidence in favor of it, one of them being the Bible's outright scripted storylines, to wit (and I'm definitely paraphrasing): "I will cause thoughts to come into King so-and-so's head and cause him to wage war against a peaceful nation without walls and kill everybody there and steal everything they own, and then such and such will happen, and then a beast will come and then ..." What the hell is this stuff?
And what if we don't have free will? If you look very closely and honestly, I think one must ultimately acknowledge that free will is an intellectual illusion. Consider every influence on our choices. There are many, operating at different levels. Incidentally, this makes me wonder: if we have no free will but we do have souls, it may be that rather than our souls directing our actions throughout life they've merely been taking a ride in our body as it goes through the world, seeing things through our eyes, feeling our feelings, etc. Riders in a roller coaster, not drivers of a vehicle. Experiencers of an experience.
Anyway, so this world -- given that it may turn out not to be fixable -- may be entirely scripted for some purpose we don't know.
And maybe the best way out of it may not be through it, but the hell out of it. Have you ever considered whether this world may be a test? Maybe we're not supposed to tolerate and endure the incessant, never-ending deception and control, but are supposed to wake up to it and reject it. Maybe there's a bet between two entities, whether you prefer to think of them as gods above us or creators outside the simulation.
-- Entity One: "Hey Bob, look here. I created this simulated world where 20% of the inhabitants relentlessly manipulate, deceive, poison, enslave, and torture the other 80%. I'll bet you $1,000 bucks the 80% put up with this shite forever, as long as we let 'em have a little bit of fun once in a while."
-- Entity Two: "No way. They have brains, right? Look, you even tipped them off by showing them how 10% of predatory animals tear apart the 80% of innocent ones! It's all too obvious. Nobody would accept this kind of world for longer than half an hour. I'll take your money."
What can we do to help you? How can we get involved?
This is a great question. We know people working on two platforms right now. All being funded privately. Both are looking for either help coding or promoting them. Or ways to crowdsource or fund them.
We had the idea of Swarm Force the game (a few articles back) that could generate money. But right now we are sort of stuck in between phases.
We are starting more marketing such as a podcast to keep discussing solutions with everyone.
Maybe the best thing we can all do right now is study high trust decentralized systems, collective intelligence systems, and then help us find ways to keep building. And then hopefully be part of a group problem solving swarm with us soon.
We also need help testing the software and platforms.
In tomorrow’s article we breakdown one of the super interesting projects.
Permaculture is a hell of a good start. I've been doing it for decades and although it has hung in the margins people are getting squeezed by the mafia state and it's making them creative and less greedy/consumerist and so it is in the ascendency now.
Nations have always been run by a "mafia." This is the way of the world-always has been, likely always will be. With the transparency technology has given us, we just see it more clearly.
The first step is to acknowledge we have a major problem and have had this same problem for thousands of years. That is living under the yoke of government. You allow a government to exist (in the form they exist today) and thus you allow yourself to be its slave. Government cannot exist without the master-slave relationship.
Humans can! Government can never be fixed, but humans can find ways to live and prosper without it.
They cannot have the slaves disregarding and ignoring their mandates, laws and dictates. They will do anything to make the slaves (citizens) believe that they, the citizen, cannot live or survive without an over-bearing government of tyrants exerting control for our own good.
The invention and development of government over the ages has created a device whereby nearly anyone can obtain enormous power and influence over others. Unfortunately, this system attracts the dregs of society, the power mongrels and those most fearful of losing control over everything. Government becomes their sole source survival.
Government by its very existance is the enabler of tyranny, terrorism and life long slavery. Riddle me this: why after thousands of years are we still putting up with this crap?
We need systems Crix. If we just go to no systems many many people will suffer. For society to exist we need rules, just not rulers.
The argument of “not government” has to be followed up with “replace it with X”
It also has to come with a plan to go from right now - fully corrupted - to whatever the new system is. With as little suffering as possible.
Your disdain for the mafia state is spot on. But to replace it with nothing is not a real solution. Systems matter. We need ones that cannot be corrupted and that the people are allowed to examine fully, always with radical transparency and ability to alter.
I appreciate these sentiments, C.
Hopefully, there's a way around the master-and-slave nature of human life. Though, the more I've looked, the less confident I've become that this situation can ever be permanently got around, just as gazelles and zebras have had no way to get around their own predators, absent intervention from some external power. Maybe might over right, slavery of the weak to the strong, is the unavoidable nature of things and evil will always win in the end.
The only way I can understand why evil would run the world is (1) if the world is meant to feed the malevolent whims of a god off-his-rails or the simulation creator (if one posits the world as a simulation). If it's not that, then (2) the world may be a deliberately staged tragedy on which we are to experience certain things, learn things, get stronger, like a field exercise in the military, where you're always developing skills in fighting against some simulated enemy. Or maybe it's to teach our "god" or simulation creator something he wants to know. (Like maybe a simulation's purpose would be to run through scenarios for the benefit of the people outside the simulation, to teach them what works and what doesn't, or cetera.)
This last option seems to have bits of evidence in favor of it, one of them being the Bible's outright scripted storylines, to wit (and I'm definitely paraphrasing): "I will cause thoughts to come into King so-and-so's head and cause him to wage war against a peaceful nation without walls and kill everybody there and steal everything they own, and then such and such will happen, and then a beast will come and then ..." What the hell is this stuff?
And what if we don't have free will? If you look very closely and honestly, I think one must ultimately acknowledge that free will is an intellectual illusion. Consider every influence on our choices. There are many, operating at different levels. Incidentally, this makes me wonder: if we have no free will but we do have souls, it may be that rather than our souls directing our actions throughout life they've merely been taking a ride in our body as it goes through the world, seeing things through our eyes, feeling our feelings, etc. Riders in a roller coaster, not drivers of a vehicle. Experiencers of an experience.
Anyway, so this world -- given that it may turn out not to be fixable -- may be entirely scripted for some purpose we don't know.
And maybe the best way out of it may not be through it, but the hell out of it. Have you ever considered whether this world may be a test? Maybe we're not supposed to tolerate and endure the incessant, never-ending deception and control, but are supposed to wake up to it and reject it. Maybe there's a bet between two entities, whether you prefer to think of them as gods above us or creators outside the simulation.
-- Entity One: "Hey Bob, look here. I created this simulated world where 20% of the inhabitants relentlessly manipulate, deceive, poison, enslave, and torture the other 80%. I'll bet you $1,000 bucks the 80% put up with this shite forever, as long as we let 'em have a little bit of fun once in a while."
-- Entity Two: "No way. They have brains, right? Look, you even tipped them off by showing them how 10% of predatory animals tear apart the 80% of innocent ones! It's all too obvious. Nobody would accept this kind of world for longer than half an hour. I'll take your money."