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Okay, so what’s the best course of action? If you’d like to be a part of a movement do you think this is the best way to go about it?
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I don't have much idea what the best way to go about it is, but I'd have thought finding a few like-minded folks to bounce ideas around with would be a start.
I've pondered these issues pretty heavily for a few decades now, and I think maybe I have the bare bones of a plan to reach that ventilation shaft in the death star - use the system against itself.
Big corporations get to push governments around, right? So politics is a dead end. Save the world, paradoxically, with a corporation. It's a cell, with a protective membrane of lawyers and accountants, and inside, once it's grown to a certain size, you can do basically whatever the fuck you want.
So you dedicated the corporation to raising all its members up Maslow's hierarchy - maximising their potential. Via the flattest possible organisation, where nobody's voice is unduly ignored. Consider Ramanujan - dude was an epic mathematical genius, but only just escaped obscurity in a little Indian village. How much more latent potential goes untapped? We've never bothered to find out.
Get a bunch of hackers together and task them with devising a phone OS which can be flashed on a variety of old phones, to operate as the foundation of a society which eschews the extremely problematic KPI of money, able to bypass the cellular network and operate peer to peer - a fractal software echo of the whole concept. Don't ask permission to create a future worth living in, seize the means of its production.
If there's a future, the currency will be kudos, anyone and everyone a journalist creating the records to judge each other's contributions, and everyone will be the government.
Either we roll up or sleeves and start implementing some fucking clues, or just keep lying in the middle of the road and wait for the hit.
Kimmo
I'm tired of pretending nothing is wrong while the list of wrong things continues to grow.
It would be nice if we could maybe get our shit together enough to at least try to close the stable door before the horse has bolted in this instance.
Because after the shit his the fan, we're going to have a great many fewer options.
That's what I assumed. What I don't understand is getting nothing but pushback. How about some interest in the notion that we might be able to seize some agency and DIY a way out of this?