Or is it too soon? Are we ready for it?!
I wish I was a computer geek. I tried to learn java, but got knocked down by scammers running basic courses who wanted me to lecture for them. I've done one assignment on CS50x (100%), almost finished learning python on Codecademy, but got distracted by Synergy Yoga and working corporate, relutantly. Oh, and there is a book trying to escape my whirling mind filled with conspiracies that seem to be more true than words puking out of politicians.
There is one idea that I can't let go of: we can run the world with cryptocurrency. I've been thinking that ethereum was the tool, but now that I've seen Steemit, I wonder if it is not a better platform or solution to organic decision-making.
But I always take my thinking back to the uneducated poor who are part of the design of the elite (Damaged). Those who haven't been exposed to the alternative media world. Those sold education, but were actually schooled to be labourers and till operators. How do they enter the cryptocurrency world? They believe their government, their doctors and schooled teachers. They are vital to our deranged society. What happens to them in global collapse?!
The crypto world talks about proof of stack, proof of work as value (correct me if I’m wrong). Labour has value. Fiat currency has none. Our world is created by labour: roads, hospitals and our ‘devices’. Fiat currency has created a false reality of markets and fabulously wealthy debt-holders.
What if labour was valued by the community? I think Steemit is beginning to entrench this idea. Those who create the content, create the value. What if we voted on community projects (not for politicians or parties!), and those that brought those projects into reality created the value that we could trade individually.
I’d like to live in a world (country/community) in which if I was hungry I could volunteer at a community project and at the end of the day value be transferred into my pocket (cellphone/card) that I could trade for healthy food, or my own music, literary pleasures.
I like your intent.
Yes and no.
Yes, we can do emergentism now sooner and better than ever, IF
we do not do "decentralized government". If you're aiming for that, NO, we can't.
"decentralized government"
is like Jumbo Shrimp or Military Intelligence.
Government IS centralization.
What you're wondering is, can we self-organize effectively using the digital age?
Yes, if you're NOT thinking in terms of government.
The governmental mindset will DESTROY ALL of your efforts, whether that be in the short term or the long-term. Government is war, from beginning to finish.
The point isn't to "run the world" but to "let the world do what it does".
Do you "run" your heart, or does it keep beating by itself when you're not paying attention to it (except that your subconscious is)?
Check out some Alan Watt's stuff, like "How To Get Out Of Your Own Way", and Larken Rose's stuff.
God I love Steemit!
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Thanks for your response. My mistake is in the use of the word 'government'. 'Community' would be far more expressive of what I feel. I don't want to pay tax, because I have to, or get licenses from some authority, but I want to add value to those around me, family, friends and fellow humans in the game of creating conditions for humans to thrive. Government is the anti-thesis of that, control by the self-important.
I'm a yogi (not an asana-practitioner) and try to live by the principles of ahimsa (non-harming/gentleness), asteya (non-stealing/generosity) and satya (truth). And the other techniques of healthy living and consciousness-hacking. That is basically 'common law' to put it into legal terms. If we all lived by those three, I'm sure it would be a peaceful world, and you could still do what your heart desires. But we're not there yet.
Questions I still need to explore are about community defense and preventing bad behaviour (policing... but that is a horrible word, like government). I'm sure the answer lies in education and community.
Thanks for the links, I'm going to check them out.
And, yes, I'm so excited about Steemit. It is the beginning of the process by creating community.
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