In his 1998 book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C Scott explains how "managers" need to homogenize everything to make it countable, make it "measurable", and thereby make it predictable and controllable. He uses the example of a forest which the state cannot see as a complex dynamic ecosystem but must rather see as "board feet of lumber grown per year". The most efficient way to maximize board feet is to bulldoze the forest and plant a monocrop of a single species of trees. The forest has now been "managed". But it's no longer a forest. It's now a plantation. It is no longer a complex living organism. It is now a lumber production facility. The managerial state materially transforms living systems into economic units.
Big data is doing the same thing to humans, reducing people to "consumers" whose desires, opinions and behavior can be categorized, measured, predicted and "managed". We are livestock, managed by Big Data ranchers who have decided there are too many cattle so the herd must be culled.
That is the action of homogenisation- of the cutting of the forest and the planting of the monoculture. We will be brainwashed pine when they’re done with us
The current financial system is just as corrupt and Satanic to the core. Central banking of fiat currencies, fractional reserve banking (and now the blatant dissolution of any pretense of fractional reserves at all!) are blatantly immoral so how does making this current system more accessible to everyone on the planet in any way absolve anyone currently participating in it now?
I find it disturbing how many people claim to know the mark of the beast. Even more bewildering is the deafening silence by those same people when asked if they're aware of the mark God gives to his elect.
As this article points out, it matters where one's attention is these days.
Yes, there are various levels of dropping out available now, but once the Beast system is fully operational, there will be nowhere to run to, and no where to hide.....by design.
Learn to hide in plain sight---it can be done. If you still facebook etc etc stop now--delete your accounts and as much personal info as possible. There are still several sources of information available that do not require registration/joining. Substack being one, and a couple of news aggregators are another. Start dialog with your neighbors, but keep your cards close to your vest. Humanity will not suffer long from a one size fits all technocrat government no matter how hard they make rebellion. Freedom is the default state of the species.
Your fooling yourself. Once you can no longer buy, sell, do business, or travel you have no options. And about you suggestion: "dialog with neighbors", that is hilarious. Your neighbors will eat you, your dog, and your entire family if they become hungary enough. And your other comment: "freedom is the default state of the species." This is also absurd, You think you are free now? If you have debt you are not free. If you can only vote for Biden or Trump you are not free, If you pay taxes you are not free. Humans actually like their servitude and will kill anyone who tries to set them free.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. Black markets are the bain of the power elite, and their basis is already strong and thriving. By learning who like thinking neighbors are and staying close is the best defense. Where I live, neighborhood militias are not a dream, and people watch out for and take care of each other. The future is going to be difficult, but the human spirit can and will overcome. If your neighbors would eat you alive--you need to move.
I don't need options anymore. I don't buy or sell, do business and see no need to travel anymore. I spent decades traveling all over the world, and at some point, one discovers the best places to live, hence no need to travel anymore.
I still remember the first time I was down cruising around Central America. Every expat I ran into had this knowing smile on their face, and it didn't take long for me to see that the view from outside the US was significantly different than from within. There is no greater sensation of true liberty than escaping from that glorified Plantation full of enchanted and pacified slaves.
I've never had debt of any kind, and learned long ago that the political process is of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations so only brainwashed slaves would bother voting in the first place.
I haven't paid any income or property taxes in over ten years. If I had it all to do over again, I would have retired when I was in my early 20's, and spent the rest of my life fishing, hunting, screwing, napping, and just enjoying life because the US, UK, Canada, Australia etc. are so insane, it's beyond redemption. Good riddance to all of it.
So outside the USA in many nations, the small businesses are on Facebook or WeChat. You want to take your dog to the vet? You want to schedule your own Doctor's appointment? You want take-out from that Vegan-Paleo cafe? Or, even just to check the hours? What was that bar you were meeting your friends or colleagues at? Etc., etc.
Getting away from the larger Facebook environment is quite the challenge.
So whereas I don't agree with you that all humans like their servitude, I do agree that many of our choices are already far more constricted and controlled than we would like to acknowledge. I respect what RE Nichols is doing below -- his "off-grid" grid. But ideally we'd still have some resistance to and break-up of the current tech-info oligarchies.
Humans love the illusion of freedom. In America that is why people will line up to vote for either the Orange Judas on the Republican side, or a brain dead pedophile on the Democrat side. They think they are free, and yet voting is a suggestion box for slaves.
If humans loved freedom, there would be systems that encourage freedom. To prove my point, look around and you will see none. Humans do not love freedom, because they are afraid. Fear is the control mechanism of the Globalists, and every tyrant throughout history. It works very well.
I've taken this approach as well. Most of the food I'm growing is right out in plain sight, but only those with a degree in botany have a chance of recognizing it.
Even with the apps available today, I suspect most people under the age of 40 will have trouble figuring out how to recognize a vegetable in the ground or how to eat it raw. Their digestive system may not even be able to handle fresh fruits or vegetables anymore.
I see a few of my neighbors building some sort of contraption to grow food. One has a hydroponics system that worked well enough, but they rarely ate anything from it. They even told me that I was welcome to harvest whatever I wanted. I took them up on their invitation until the wood rotted away on the frame this year. Another neighbor is growing tomatoes, and some canary melons. This is their idea of preparing for food shortages.
I've been working on my garden for a few years now, and I'm amazed at how much food I consume when I'm eating everything from my garden. It's difficult to produce enough calories to maintain a healthy weight. I eat like a ravenous swine, and can't help but lose weight.
I think the solution may be to grow more tubers and sugarcane.
I seem to recall some passages in the bible pointing to a woman giving birth, and being hidden from the dragon that loitering around to devour the newborn child. For some unknown reason, people just automatically assume that if you can't buy or sell, the only other alternative is death. There are people all over the world who have never bought or sold anything their entire lives. Their are whole populations of people who spend their entire lives enjoying life. They almost never get sick, and when they do die well into their late 80's and 90's, they appear to be no older than 35 or 40 years old.
Consumers are not born. They're brainwashed into believing they must consume crap from the corporatocracy or die. Try the red pill next time.
False. There are tribes in Papau New Guinea, Africa, etc. who do not engage in buying or selling. There are also plenty of people in first world countries who do not engage in any commercial activities or transactions whatsoever. They give gifts, and if they can, they graciously accept gifts from others, and not necessarily as a medium of exchange. You are assuming a consumerist mentality which is not necessarily the default setting for quite a few people. We're not all consumers, and couldn't care less what happens when that system collapses. As the good book says, "Run! Get out!" of the beast system. Stop being a "consumer".
"We couldn't care less when the system collapsed." Perhaps you will sing a different tune when your neighbors run out of food and decide to eat you. "As the good book says." Do you mean the book of hebrew writers (the tribe that killed Jesus), and compiled by Romans and their minions? The book that states that hebrews are gods chosen people, and they should go forth and slaughter Caananites. That good book?
"I'd rather learn to grow food." Too late to learn. These are skills you already need. Have you every grown everything you will need to eat/survive? You think it is easy? You are living a fantasy that has no basis in reality. Just like the people who say: "I have a bug out bag" Well, where are they going to bug out to? The woods? A farmers pasture? Hunt the game on private land? However, as I said previously: Believe anything you wish, that is the beauty of free will.
Digital DNA, my goodness me.. 😂 With 80million $, what I will do..?
Will a free independent internet save us all the good citizens..?
Where is Truth, your Truth, my Truth...?
Manipulation is everywhere, primarily inside most human beings.
For me only Love is real.
You can call me a dreamer, but if u do, u are wrong.
People is so scared to heard the Truth, but then you realize that Truth doesn't belong to anybody.
"Strawberry fields, nothing is real..."
I can tell you the Truth and I always do, but I realize it's my Truth.
Don't tell me anything, just show me.
I want actions that show me who you really are, every minute, every day, consistently, then I wouldn't need your words.
Look at my eyes, give me a hug, show me a smile, so then, I will be able to FEEL You. I need to Feel to know the Truth.
How can we feel anything through a machine..? Even if it has digital DNA.
Real wisdom comes, from the heart, and the heart is the abode of Spirit, only bringin connection with our heart can we discern false from true.
So maybe it's OK to have a different type of internet networks and servers etc. But A. I. is not going to give us real Truth ever.
We are so afraid to connect, to get together, to touch each others, to get too close, that's why people connect through internet, it feels safe.
I'm not going to invite you to my house but I can connect with you through the net, and pay a great independent server with bitcoins and... Voilà, this thé solution. Well, maybe you think so, but I don't agree.
Look at my eyes, hold my hands and connect heart to heart. That's for me the solution for all the lies and manipulation in this world.
I have long thought that a simple proxy between the browser and scp would make a nice alternate internet without an need for ssl certificates. And the Bitcoin blockchain could function as a kind of uncensorable DNS for it, mapping names to scp keys which identify people and encrypt their content. Search would still be a problem though.
Tezos has been working on a self amending blockchain, which is the only one I'm aware of that would allow content to be deleted and the ledger to forget it. All others have permanence embedded in their dna which is good for accounting and transparency but horrible for privacy and autonomy. Not sure if they've made it work but they raised ~400 mil back during the first ICO gold rush.
Last week a mile from home I realized that I left the house without my cell. Turn back? Round trip maybe 20 miles, one hour visit. “What if the car…what if someone really needs…what if I really want…” Heart to Self: “don’t you remember how freeing it was back before?” Oh, yeah…
How would this parallel platform deal with infiltration from the elite's stooges and snitches? I decided to search Gab's marketplace, and to my dismay discovered that whoever designed that mess didn't take into consideration that I'm not interested in buying a car, boat, bike, RV, etc. on the other side of the country. So one of the problems is that we don't have the talent to even do basic coding yet which is going to immediately cause people to drop out from the internet altogether.
Who has a smartphone that wasn't part of the corporate/government surveillance plan? Who's going to come up with the smartphones that don't have these technologies, and what makes anyone think the government will even let them?
I was getting a physical the other day to maintain one of my onerous government licenses, and like many places these days; in addition to filling out a stack of paperwork, one has to get into line and use a tablet touch screen which well over half the people in line can't begin to figure out.
So this "new and improved" technological device that is supposed to make like more convenient results in office staff having to constantly run back and forth to figure out what the problem is.
Eventually signs go up on the wall informing whomever it may concern that when you're prompted to scan your license, simply click "No", etc., etc. etc.
They're pitching this narrative that their new and improved digital ID will make me safer and more protected, and offer me more opportunities to excel in life by taking out loans, being reminded of the newest booster shot, etc.
However, If I'm not in their system to begin with, and don't need their new gadgets, loans, fiat currencies, then they might just have some trouble finding out where I am or who I am. I can't think of anything that could provide me with a deeper sense of safety and security. What happened to what's his name, and where did he go?
One of the older examples of usury being documented as an instrument of war can be found in the Hebrew bible. God instructs the Israelites to invade and destroy the inhabitants of the Promised land, but they spare quite a few so God instructs them to destroy them with usury.
This particular instrument of war is just as effective today as the first time it became instrumental in destroying whole civilizations. Don't ever pay interest or attention to anything going on in this entire corrupt, asinine system or the next one.
As I understand it, the internet depends on the telephone lines and they are government property (ownership = control). And thus, we are property also, long ago sold by our parents and grandparents who preferred free stuff to free people.
Thanks. Well done. I agree TPTB will try a cyber attack next. They are not done but they will ultimately fail. Tyranny never wins in the end. They are in the death throes and the race between their next moves and humans waking is on. Humans win in the end. The parallel world is already forming (substack is an example, a piece of it.) What we don't know is how many will perish before that happens.
Mar 23, 2022·edited Mar 23, 2022Liked by Good Citizen
Been racking my brains on the subject of a "NewNet" for years now. To go into detail would take me all week to write down, but I am fond of a system that would imply something similar to a memory trace in the human brain. Your thoughts are yours, and therefore most private by design. Seeing, listening and speaking are a challenge though. Such a system would imply a form of distrust at the onset of contact.
Ran this course with a CS grad on the concept of data. He always insisted the more the better. When I asked, why isn't it the less individual data the better? His data filled brain exploded. At the heart of this debate is privacy/liberty/autonomy on the one side and the techies who build from opposite philosophies of dataveillance/control/manipulation. The book Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine shows the roots of this philosophy permeating CS departments because all these technologies originated with intel/military research and funding = control/manipulation.
To conceptualise a network or node system where your data would be kept private is a thing that is feasable in of itself, including the use of blockchain technology if needed. What is really a challenge is the means of communication (e.g. UTP / glassfiber / land line / CB or HAM radio etc). One has to find a way to transpose the communications and any newly invented protocols through these third-party hardware infrastructures, because that's where the legacy surveillance comes into play.
Good one as usual. Always seem to have a good catch phrase. My favorite today - "Black suits, hiding behind ominous aviators"! Also stealing your 4 Horseman cartoon for my IMAGE FOR THE DAY and will be linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
In his 1998 book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C Scott explains how "managers" need to homogenize everything to make it countable, make it "measurable", and thereby make it predictable and controllable. He uses the example of a forest which the state cannot see as a complex dynamic ecosystem but must rather see as "board feet of lumber grown per year". The most efficient way to maximize board feet is to bulldoze the forest and plant a monocrop of a single species of trees. The forest has now been "managed". But it's no longer a forest. It's now a plantation. It is no longer a complex living organism. It is now a lumber production facility. The managerial state materially transforms living systems into economic units.
Big data is doing the same thing to humans, reducing people to "consumers" whose desires, opinions and behavior can be categorized, measured, predicted and "managed". We are livestock, managed by Big Data ranchers who have decided there are too many cattle so the herd must be culled.
That is the action of homogenisation- of the cutting of the forest and the planting of the monoculture. We will be brainwashed pine when they’re done with us
The Mark of the Beast was never possible until the internet /digital age. Now it is being rolled out quickly. A choice will be made by everyone.
The current financial system is just as corrupt and Satanic to the core. Central banking of fiat currencies, fractional reserve banking (and now the blatant dissolution of any pretense of fractional reserves at all!) are blatantly immoral so how does making this current system more accessible to everyone on the planet in any way absolve anyone currently participating in it now?
I find it disturbing how many people claim to know the mark of the beast. Even more bewildering is the deafening silence by those same people when asked if they're aware of the mark God gives to his elect.
As this article points out, it matters where one's attention is these days.
Yes, there are various levels of dropping out available now, but once the Beast system is fully operational, there will be nowhere to run to, and no where to hide.....by design.
Learn to hide in plain sight---it can be done. If you still facebook etc etc stop now--delete your accounts and as much personal info as possible. There are still several sources of information available that do not require registration/joining. Substack being one, and a couple of news aggregators are another. Start dialog with your neighbors, but keep your cards close to your vest. Humanity will not suffer long from a one size fits all technocrat government no matter how hard they make rebellion. Freedom is the default state of the species.
Your fooling yourself. Once you can no longer buy, sell, do business, or travel you have no options. And about you suggestion: "dialog with neighbors", that is hilarious. Your neighbors will eat you, your dog, and your entire family if they become hungary enough. And your other comment: "freedom is the default state of the species." This is also absurd, You think you are free now? If you have debt you are not free. If you can only vote for Biden or Trump you are not free, If you pay taxes you are not free. Humans actually like their servitude and will kill anyone who tries to set them free.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. Black markets are the bain of the power elite, and their basis is already strong and thriving. By learning who like thinking neighbors are and staying close is the best defense. Where I live, neighborhood militias are not a dream, and people watch out for and take care of each other. The future is going to be difficult, but the human spirit can and will overcome. If your neighbors would eat you alive--you need to move.
I don't need options anymore. I don't buy or sell, do business and see no need to travel anymore. I spent decades traveling all over the world, and at some point, one discovers the best places to live, hence no need to travel anymore.
I still remember the first time I was down cruising around Central America. Every expat I ran into had this knowing smile on their face, and it didn't take long for me to see that the view from outside the US was significantly different than from within. There is no greater sensation of true liberty than escaping from that glorified Plantation full of enchanted and pacified slaves.
I've never had debt of any kind, and learned long ago that the political process is of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations so only brainwashed slaves would bother voting in the first place.
I haven't paid any income or property taxes in over ten years. If I had it all to do over again, I would have retired when I was in my early 20's, and spent the rest of my life fishing, hunting, screwing, napping, and just enjoying life because the US, UK, Canada, Australia etc. are so insane, it's beyond redemption. Good riddance to all of it.
So outside the USA in many nations, the small businesses are on Facebook or WeChat. You want to take your dog to the vet? You want to schedule your own Doctor's appointment? You want take-out from that Vegan-Paleo cafe? Or, even just to check the hours? What was that bar you were meeting your friends or colleagues at? Etc., etc.
Getting away from the larger Facebook environment is quite the challenge.
So whereas I don't agree with you that all humans like their servitude, I do agree that many of our choices are already far more constricted and controlled than we would like to acknowledge. I respect what RE Nichols is doing below -- his "off-grid" grid. But ideally we'd still have some resistance to and break-up of the current tech-info oligarchies.
Humans love the illusion of freedom. In America that is why people will line up to vote for either the Orange Judas on the Republican side, or a brain dead pedophile on the Democrat side. They think they are free, and yet voting is a suggestion box for slaves.
If humans loved freedom, there would be systems that encourage freedom. To prove my point, look around and you will see none. Humans do not love freedom, because they are afraid. Fear is the control mechanism of the Globalists, and every tyrant throughout history. It works very well.
I've taken this approach as well. Most of the food I'm growing is right out in plain sight, but only those with a degree in botany have a chance of recognizing it.
Even with the apps available today, I suspect most people under the age of 40 will have trouble figuring out how to recognize a vegetable in the ground or how to eat it raw. Their digestive system may not even be able to handle fresh fruits or vegetables anymore.
I see a few of my neighbors building some sort of contraption to grow food. One has a hydroponics system that worked well enough, but they rarely ate anything from it. They even told me that I was welcome to harvest whatever I wanted. I took them up on their invitation until the wood rotted away on the frame this year. Another neighbor is growing tomatoes, and some canary melons. This is their idea of preparing for food shortages.
I've been working on my garden for a few years now, and I'm amazed at how much food I consume when I'm eating everything from my garden. It's difficult to produce enough calories to maintain a healthy weight. I eat like a ravenous swine, and can't help but lose weight.
I think the solution may be to grow more tubers and sugarcane.
I seem to recall some passages in the bible pointing to a woman giving birth, and being hidden from the dragon that loitering around to devour the newborn child. For some unknown reason, people just automatically assume that if you can't buy or sell, the only other alternative is death. There are people all over the world who have never bought or sold anything their entire lives. Their are whole populations of people who spend their entire lives enjoying life. They almost never get sick, and when they do die well into their late 80's and 90's, they appear to be no older than 35 or 40 years old.
Consumers are not born. They're brainwashed into believing they must consume crap from the corporatocracy or die. Try the red pill next time.
Everyone buys and sells. Only the medium of exchange varies.
False. There are tribes in Papau New Guinea, Africa, etc. who do not engage in buying or selling. There are also plenty of people in first world countries who do not engage in any commercial activities or transactions whatsoever. They give gifts, and if they can, they graciously accept gifts from others, and not necessarily as a medium of exchange. You are assuming a consumerist mentality which is not necessarily the default setting for quite a few people. We're not all consumers, and couldn't care less what happens when that system collapses. As the good book says, "Run! Get out!" of the beast system. Stop being a "consumer".
"We couldn't care less when the system collapsed." Perhaps you will sing a different tune when your neighbors run out of food and decide to eat you. "As the good book says." Do you mean the book of hebrew writers (the tribe that killed Jesus), and compiled by Romans and their minions? The book that states that hebrews are gods chosen people, and they should go forth and slaughter Caananites. That good book?
Believe whatever you wish, but if you are banking on the St. Pasios prophesy, you are in for a big surprise.
"I'd rather learn to grow food." Too late to learn. These are skills you already need. Have you every grown everything you will need to eat/survive? You think it is easy? You are living a fantasy that has no basis in reality. Just like the people who say: "I have a bug out bag" Well, where are they going to bug out to? The woods? A farmers pasture? Hunt the game on private land? However, as I said previously: Believe anything you wish, that is the beauty of free will.
The beast system means a great tribulation and Jesus coming to rule once and for all
If Jesus came back, the Hebrews would kill him all over again.
Same. And there are worse things than death. Humans win in the end.
Digital DNA, my goodness me.. 😂 With 80million $, what I will do..?
Will a free independent internet save us all the good citizens..?
Where is Truth, your Truth, my Truth...?
Manipulation is everywhere, primarily inside most human beings.
For me only Love is real.
You can call me a dreamer, but if u do, u are wrong.
People is so scared to heard the Truth, but then you realize that Truth doesn't belong to anybody.
"Strawberry fields, nothing is real..."
I can tell you the Truth and I always do, but I realize it's my Truth.
Don't tell me anything, just show me.
I want actions that show me who you really are, every minute, every day, consistently, then I wouldn't need your words.
Look at my eyes, give me a hug, show me a smile, so then, I will be able to FEEL You. I need to Feel to know the Truth.
How can we feel anything through a machine..? Even if it has digital DNA.
Real wisdom comes, from the heart, and the heart is the abode of Spirit, only bringin connection with our heart can we discern false from true.
So maybe it's OK to have a different type of internet networks and servers etc. But A. I. is not going to give us real Truth ever.
We are so afraid to connect, to get together, to touch each others, to get too close, that's why people connect through internet, it feels safe.
I'm not going to invite you to my house but I can connect with you through the net, and pay a great independent server with bitcoins and... Voilà, this thé solution. Well, maybe you think so, but I don't agree.
Look at my eyes, hold my hands and connect heart to heart. That's for me the solution for all the lies and manipulation in this world.
I have long thought that a simple proxy between the browser and scp would make a nice alternate internet without an need for ssl certificates. And the Bitcoin blockchain could function as a kind of uncensorable DNS for it, mapping names to scp keys which identify people and encrypt their content. Search would still be a problem though.
Tezos has been working on a self amending blockchain, which is the only one I'm aware of that would allow content to be deleted and the ledger to forget it. All others have permanence embedded in their dna which is good for accounting and transparency but horrible for privacy and autonomy. Not sure if they've made it work but they raised ~400 mil back during the first ICO gold rush.
You might want to take a look at the MimbleWimble Protocol and Grin.
Been racking my brain on the subject for years
"Dumb and silent we are being led, like sheep to the slaughter."
To celebrate such feat...
https://i.postimg.cc/4dKp6pBj/Sheep-Shepherds-and-a-Goat.jpg
So you're saying they're not "safe and effective"? C'mom GS!
https://inrupt.com/solid
Yes, been following them for three years since Berners Lee announced his sabbatical to build that. Had higher hopes.
Last week a mile from home I realized that I left the house without my cell. Turn back? Round trip maybe 20 miles, one hour visit. “What if the car…what if someone really needs…what if I really want…” Heart to Self: “don’t you remember how freeing it was back before?” Oh, yeah…
How would this parallel platform deal with infiltration from the elite's stooges and snitches? I decided to search Gab's marketplace, and to my dismay discovered that whoever designed that mess didn't take into consideration that I'm not interested in buying a car, boat, bike, RV, etc. on the other side of the country. So one of the problems is that we don't have the talent to even do basic coding yet which is going to immediately cause people to drop out from the internet altogether.
Who has a smartphone that wasn't part of the corporate/government surveillance plan? Who's going to come up with the smartphones that don't have these technologies, and what makes anyone think the government will even let them?
I was getting a physical the other day to maintain one of my onerous government licenses, and like many places these days; in addition to filling out a stack of paperwork, one has to get into line and use a tablet touch screen which well over half the people in line can't begin to figure out.
So this "new and improved" technological device that is supposed to make like more convenient results in office staff having to constantly run back and forth to figure out what the problem is.
Eventually signs go up on the wall informing whomever it may concern that when you're prompted to scan your license, simply click "No", etc., etc. etc.
They're pitching this narrative that their new and improved digital ID will make me safer and more protected, and offer me more opportunities to excel in life by taking out loans, being reminded of the newest booster shot, etc.
However, If I'm not in their system to begin with, and don't need their new gadgets, loans, fiat currencies, then they might just have some trouble finding out where I am or who I am. I can't think of anything that could provide me with a deeper sense of safety and security. What happened to what's his name, and where did he go?
One of the older examples of usury being documented as an instrument of war can be found in the Hebrew bible. God instructs the Israelites to invade and destroy the inhabitants of the Promised land, but they spare quite a few so God instructs them to destroy them with usury.
This particular instrument of war is just as effective today as the first time it became instrumental in destroying whole civilizations. Don't ever pay interest or attention to anything going on in this entire corrupt, asinine system or the next one.
As I understand it, the internet depends on the telephone lines and they are government property (ownership = control). And thus, we are property also, long ago sold by our parents and grandparents who preferred free stuff to free people.
Thanks. Well done. I agree TPTB will try a cyber attack next. They are not done but they will ultimately fail. Tyranny never wins in the end. They are in the death throes and the race between their next moves and humans waking is on. Humans win in the end. The parallel world is already forming (substack is an example, a piece of it.) What we don't know is how many will perish before that happens.
Been racking my brains on the subject of a "NewNet" for years now. To go into detail would take me all week to write down, but I am fond of a system that would imply something similar to a memory trace in the human brain. Your thoughts are yours, and therefore most private by design. Seeing, listening and speaking are a challenge though. Such a system would imply a form of distrust at the onset of contact.
Ran this course with a CS grad on the concept of data. He always insisted the more the better. When I asked, why isn't it the less individual data the better? His data filled brain exploded. At the heart of this debate is privacy/liberty/autonomy on the one side and the techies who build from opposite philosophies of dataveillance/control/manipulation. The book Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine shows the roots of this philosophy permeating CS departments because all these technologies originated with intel/military research and funding = control/manipulation.
To conceptualise a network or node system where your data would be kept private is a thing that is feasable in of itself, including the use of blockchain technology if needed. What is really a challenge is the means of communication (e.g. UTP / glassfiber / land line / CB or HAM radio etc). One has to find a way to transpose the communications and any newly invented protocols through these third-party hardware infrastructures, because that's where the legacy surveillance comes into play.
Surely the first casualty of war is the battle plans. Dont Generals say their Plans take a beating from the moment of impact ?
The OffGuardian (highly recommend)put up a piece, a video from James Corbett ‘s
solutionswatch series today re: search.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/03/21/watch-presearch-search-engine/
I only wish I had $80 million. I would give it to you TGC in a heartbeat to do as needed to help those who deserve it.
What to do? Have you looked into IPFS or Freenet?
Good one as usual. Always seem to have a good catch phrase. My favorite today - "Black suits, hiding behind ominous aviators"! Also stealing your 4 Horseman cartoon for my IMAGE FOR THE DAY and will be linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/