I am on the shitter instead of the shower. So, sorry if I babble crap. But imagine something like GitHub but for the purpose of restructuring society.
The scenario you describe is actually represented in a great free book from Cory Doctorow: https://boingboing.net/2009/10/28/makers-my-new-novel.html
Today is the launch of my new novel, Makers, a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet.
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We don’t need to convince the government. We just ignore it until it goes away. If it does not dissolve on its own, we just put it in a submarine.
also known as philosophy
Think we need a new channel.
!c/shitterthoughts
I made a [email protected] a while ago !
I’ve got some bad news for you. There is going to he no communist revolution. This isn’t early 20th century Russia
Not with that aditude no.
You should read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. I think you’ll like it.
There’s also “A Half-Built Garden” novel where the whole “git as means of direct democracy” is central to the plot. Is gitpunk a genre?
I’ve just made it to that scene and I feel like I owe you a very hardy fuck you for recommending this gloriously weird book. Guess i’ll update when I’ve finished a chapter or two.
Owned by microsoft 🤔
That’s what it is now. To much bloat, a stupid subscription model. It runs very slow while the machine runs way to hot.
Applecracy would at least be aesthetically pleasing. Imagine the dope uniforms that everybody would have to wear.
Hugo Boss maybe!
Just replace the skull with the apple and voila.
Can you elaborate your thoughts? What does “A GitHub for restructuring society” look like?
Billions of completely unrelated developments of niche topics in languages most people don’t understand and then also hundreds of competing solutions to the same problems.
I think it would not work, people covertly sabotage any drift toward a utopia because they do not want it, it is numbingly dull. Beyond wealth or ease of life or sexual freedom what people really want at a deep and profound level is to have something to complain about. The whole of Reddit is just a mechanism for that, as is all social media, as is the internet, the purpose of language and life. People want to gaze over at one section of society and say look at those fucking idiots I am so much better than them. Then they want to tell people how much better they are and have other people agree, and that sort of thing is banned in utopia.
Easy fix: A very violent sport, to ease the peoples hunger for discord. On a volontary basis of course. Preferably something with roller skates and swords.
Also introduce Kevin into the system. People can complain about him. A common enemy brings people together and Kevin is a really big asshohle.
Now everybody’s happy. Except for Kevin of course. But that’s the price you have to pay for utopia.
Love the brainstorm energy and solution oriented mindset. Few suggestions:
Lets make the game mandatory and nonviolent, except the loser becomes the new kevin and the winner gets blown up with giant lasers.
The kevin system will push people not to be the last one and the laser will discourage people from being at the top.
It would create much more homogenous, and equal society with no class wars because everyone would want to be the part of the “middle class”
The revolution? What revolution? Against ze Germans? WTF are you on about?
