Consensual Cooperation

There's constantly parallels being drawn between the evolutionary forces that drove the progression of primitive life to the market forces that drive the progression of individual prosperity. And while there are some similarities the differences are far more stark.

Patents are a ticket to use government violence to prevent others from creating value with their property. Literally restricting them from using what they own in certain forms. An idea for value creation is a very small part of creating value. Building and managing the systems necessary to do so is the majority of the difficulty. Therefore patents actually incentivise people to do the easy part of value creation then execute horribly on the difficult part as there's no competition. Holding us all back from getting the best products/services possible.

Our individual value scales determine everything about what is created, how it's created and how that affects the biosphere. The gov has implanted this idea that the individual is helpless to direct production and run away uncontrollable companies will destroy our environment to make a buck. So the only solution is to give the gov more power to use unilateral violence to prevent companies from doing so, This is totally unfounded. Companies only make what you buy. If you want something made with processes that are more expensive but less damaging to the biosphere you can do so. We have total control over production. If we choose to protect primitive life at some cost to the rest of our value scales we can do so. If we choose to destroy all primitive life to make ours better well good, that's what we wanted. There's no objective good or bad just what we want. And as we’re the most advanced form of life we have this option by default.

The most Versatile weapon the state welds is using there Monopoly on violence to force us into a situation out of our control (only because they’ve striped us control) to cause panic and helplessness. Demanding more control as we obviously cant fix a problem that we didnt cause thats being violently enforced. A textbook example of this being governments causing economic destruction with the lockdown then touting that freedom and self interest caused it and we need to have less control over our money as we supposedly cant act in our own best interests. The other day i had a terrifying thought, if the state starts to feel there support failing(happening rn) they could Collaborate to start a nuclear war. Allowing them to both completely scramble any movements against them by wiping the board to square one and have an excuse to Seize total control. Through inducing a state of fever pitch panic and helplessness. “Justifying” a “Temporary” abolition of private property and all rights. As is already spelled out in Military documents. A truly terrifying thought but as the lengths of our current lockdown insanity has shown very possible. We must get these weapons of large scale destruction out of the hands of the most murderous and powerful systems as soon as possible.

The institutionalization of science has pushed a coercive consensus onto our agreed upon information. Engraving obviously incorrect ideas into the foundations of entire scientific frameworks. Entangling progress in a web of frozen nonsense.

Theres a prolifically propagandized notion that there is some sort of common good beyond the individual. As if groups had there own set of value scales. In this episode i talk about how this idea has infected economics with the notion of overall economic efficiency. There is no meaning of increasing prosperity beyond individual value scales.

From a single cell to massive value creating systems constituting of 1000’s of already massively complex humans Hierarchies are ingrained in everything. An essential structure for any sort of complex organic functioning they are one of the things that defines life. Many anarchists believe hierarchies are bad and we should use force to dismember them. But as long as their consensual they are not only fine but the very source of all creation. Violent Hierarchies are horrible, the problem lies in the violence not the Hierarchies

Bitcoin cannot scale to be a large player in the global economy. This is because it grants control over the coin based upon computing power and as it gets more valuable the incentive to control it will drive the necessary mining power to keep it safe through the roof. Resulting in a downward pressure that deincentivizes growth with ever increasing weight. As no one is going to want to spend 51% of the worlds energy on controlling a blockchain.

Many systems thinkers have a view that systems need to be totally understood and controlled to be directed and as this is clearly light years away from being possible with any system they result to axioms of hopelessness. They need to approach systems from the mix of chaos/order/time that is organics. Exploring how to create, grow, and morph systems like the living entity’s they are.

Algorithms determine the vast majority of how informative flows on the internet. All of the large directors of information flow have obviously terrible algorithms that need to be drastically improved. As information dictates literally everything about how we construct our experience and navigate the world we need to have an understanding of and control over what determines the information we get fed.