Mastodawn

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916

While I agree with the overall anyways of the upcoming situation, I wouldn't rely on the ballot... Especially in the US.

There is a parallel between the #enshitificaton of software, hardware, and services and the austerity to fascism pipeline. The state is just an older type of walled garden. The solution isn't to improve the walled garden, but to leave it forever.

When we build systems, together, that cannot be shut down, that exist outside of these political systems, then we are opting out. Anarchism is the open source option of political ideologies.

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book_dragon 2d ago

@Hex In keeping with your analogy, what if we just knocked down the walls (removed gov. control) and continued to expand our gardens as we see fit? There could then be an anarchy of place.

Also, is anarchy considered an "end state," or is it a necessary incubator for better systems?

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Lykso

@JeanieBurrell @Hex The trouble I see is that this would likely create a power vacuum into which, most likely, we would see a completely unaccountable private actor enter. If we don't have a system of defense in place, then we become a nation governed by Palantir, or whatever group proves best able to wield violence. But, of course, the establishment of a defense also creates the conditions necessary for that defense to be used for coercive means. I don't see a way out of that bind. 🫤