@dinofelis you are very smart (and probably more knowledgeable than me about many things), but you have some huge blind spots. Absolutely huge. I could drive an 18 wheeler through your blindspots and you wouldn't even know it.
Most probably. I won't deny this. I would like to discover them. However, you might make the mistake to confuse my "utopic view of how the world should be" , my "theory of how the world is" and "what I'm interested in about this world". These are 3 totally different, and almost unrelated things, and it is true that from one post to another, I jump between these paradigms.
As you wrote somewhere else, you think that I think that we will get rid of government in one generation. No, I don't think that. I think it would be a good thing, but it will not happen. I think government is an unavoidable, but absolute, evil. However, my idea is that KNOWING that government is fundamentally evil is a good thing. I think that the best one could do, is make people see that government is the absolute evil. But this will not work for most, and I know that, because people are gullible - which is exactly the reason why government can exist in the first place. I'm absolutely convinced, however, that no good can come from any form of government ; that said, there are governments which are less worse than others, in the sense that some forms of government allow people who understand the system, from not being entirely enslaved, crushed and annihilated by it. I think that that corner is the niche for "distributed/crypto/...". But by far most gullible people (90% or more of the population) like to be enslaved, are too naive to understand that they are crushed, and cannot be annihilated because there's nothing to annihilate ; and are hence happy collaborators of the government. They don't need "distributed", or "crypto". They are all too happy to be part of the system. They are hierarchical animals, they already started their loss of individuality and are becoming another species, while the 10% or less of us are individuals. The hierarchical animals are simply another, dominant, species. So there is simply no hope for individuals to be the dominant species. We are like the mammals during the Jurassic epoch: the best we can do is live underground, in the shadow of the dinosaurs. This is where crypto can help. We want to live as if we were invisible, ignored by the dominant dinosaurs, only come out at night, and hide underground. It is the only place where individual freedom can hide. But hey, the mammals survived the mesozoic era ! So, anonymous, discrete, invisible, unknown, "in-existent", the only way to live freely.
In my case, that is sufficient. My only goal in life, apart from enjoying it, is to understand as much of the world as I can. This is something that can be achieved in an anonymous, discrete, invisible, and unknown way. Unfortunately, there are material and other needs that must be filled in, and unfortunately, those expose you to the dangers of recognition, visibility, and hence, all the hatred, theft and violence that goes with the dominant, government-believing species. Some interaction is difficult to avoid.
