Severance

My most recent blogpost was about Divergent Societal Evolution, and it's necessity. This post serves as a sort of continuance of that post.

I got pushback from some australian who didn't think it was feasible to have a clean break, raise a new distributed network, and then moderate it to keep money, porn, and outside influence out of it.

Make no mistake, it CAN happen and it MUST happen.

I'm talking a clean break.

Let's talk briefly about the perversion of our culture - that is to say the culture of the internet. There's many words for it: enshittification, sloppification, etc. Everyone agrees that we stand in the shadow of a golden age - and everyone wants to go back.

What do you think actually going back entails?  Donning the regalia of dead ages and proclaiming that it's 2007 again - while not doing anything to reverse the psychic damage inflicted on our peoples over the last 20 years? Wearing a paper thin mask of "the good old days" while algorithms are allowed to mandate what the hottest shit on the block is? Living in fear of society's disdain for you and your ilk because you wanted literally everybody in your hometown to hop on the websites that you hopped on?

Make no mistake, the widespread adoption of internet usage - that is to say, the normiefication of the internet - has been a disaster for the people that the internet originally spoke to. Those who can see the potential for long range networks without muddying them with promises of money, vice, and other evils.

We live in the most interconnected age that the world has ever seen - yet still everyone is alone. Something has got to give.

A clean break, communities which operate like modern day Amish communities would - interact with the outside world purely on a monetary basis, funnel money into acquiring land and necessary communal resources, communication should be as limited as possible to other aligned communities.

The war is not won until time is uncompressed and our kids have no idea what tiktok is.