With everything going on in the world we can know with absolute certainty that explosive change is right around the corner. No one contests this "fact". The Great Reset and New Normal are coming, whether we like it or not.
With these changes will come a complete revamp of the system as we know it. Those in power would seek to control this demolition and rebuild it in their image: with them in absolute control. Something tells me all is not going according to plan.
We know things are a bit off when retail just decides to team up against Goliath hedge funds and squeeze their ridiculous shorts. Add to that this idea that 2021 is a mega-bubble year for crypto, and things might start getting very crazy.
At the core, crypto is all about governance. Bitcoin has the least rules and the best security, making it the anchor of this ship. Every maximalist will tell you: inflation bad, small blocks good. It's a simple government. Too simple to be an actual government. Therefore it becomes clear that Bitcoin is simply the auxiliary shield that helps the rest of the space flourish.
That's why DPOS is so valuable. DPOS bridges the gap between crypto and republic governance. Everyone tries to rip on DPOS for being ridiculous. How can one vouch for a government when the weight of one's vote is directly correlated to how much money they have? Surely, that is a flawed system!
Trust me, DPOS voting is superior to one person, one vote. We already tried that. It's called "democracy", and it is a bad joke. All "democracies" and republics simply devolve into those with money being in charge anyway. Except they are sneaky about it. Those with resources use those surpluses to manipulate public opinion and grease the wheel of government to get what they want via lobbyists, commercials, backdoor bribes, and whatever else.
With DPOS, things are much more clear: You don't have to deal with any of the deception because the rabble are poor and don't get a vote that the elite can manipulate for a profit. Rather it is the money itself that votes. Ideally, it sounds like a trash system, but trust me, it's way way better than what we have today.
How many people think there was fraud in the last election? Do you notice how no one is talking about improving election security? They're just saying STFU you idiot conspiracy theorist... Even if fraud did not occur, why wouldn't we increase security anyway? Probably because that concept has zero value to the people running the show.
In the case of DPOS, election fraud is much more difficult with zero overhead cost added to that increased security. What are you going to do? Hijack the network? Jack up the price, make everyone rich, and then get forked out justifiably? Yes please! The next time Hive gets hit by a money attack, we all get rich and we probably won't even lose our name/brand if we play it well. Centralized powerhouses can no longer jump into these systems risk-free. The risk is extremely high for those who want to exploit the system.
Hard times are coming!
And what do hard times bring with them? Extremists. Zealots. Or as the Biden administration will call them: Domestic Terrorists. Already they are trying to pull this bullshit with Wallstreetbets. Nobody's buying it, jackasses. Nazis didn't squeeze your shorts, stop crying, billionaires.
Communist Anarchism & Fascist Socialism
At least 3 of 4 out of these words are extremely triggering to most people. Anarchism sometimes gets a free pass, but even then rarely. Not Many have come to realize this truth yet: that crypto allows us to implement governments that were previously completely impossible to deploy at scale, defending their brand blindly and with unmatched fervor (looking at you, XRP army). The times are changing.
Those who lean right on Hive (and there are a great many) tend to typecast these words in the darkest of lights. The implication is that no form of communism or socialism could ever be legit or beneficial to the people. This is patently false, and many of these same people actively support socialism just by being here at the ground floor.
At its core, socialism is simply the people being in charge of themselves. It's an extension of democracy. However, we see that real-world implementations have thus far been trash, and so many will blindly reject anything with the "socialist" label.
For example, raising the minimum wage is socialist. Socialism exists where free-market capitalism fails. It is basically a band-aid that attempts to correct a problem in the free market. Social security is also socialist. Hell, it's even in the name.
The problem with band-aids?
Eventually the wound is supposed to heal and you should be able to take the damn thing off. Instead, what we have is an unsustainable debt-based system full of socialist regulation quick-fixes that never heal or go away. Even income tax was supposed to be a temporary measure at one point... didn't that work out swell.
At the core of anarchism is opt-in governance and the automation of authority. No one should be in charge; our ideals should be in charge and the governed should implicitly consent to the rulesets given. Everyone who supports crypto supports anarchism whether they know it or not. This is the exact point of crypto: to automate out the middle man and decentralize money/power.
Never before has Anarchism been possible to scale until crypto came along. We now have the systems and tools to build out governments that govern themselves rather than putting someone in charge.
In the future all forms of government will be a subset of anarchism. The middle men politicians will be removed and everything will be built from the bottom up rather than top-down.
Communism is a adaptation of anarchism where lots of rules are created to try to put everyone on more equal footing. The real-world implementations have been abysmal, and much more closely resemble authoritarianism, again with a small elite in charge of a big pyramid that isn't scaling well, just like all the other real-world implementations of government.
My voting habits are largely communist. I'm here to build out my network, not reward quality content (for the most part). You might see me upvote every comment on my blog for an equal amount, even if some of the comments are trash and some are really good: I don't care. You all get an upvote for participation.
You might see me upvote every blog post in my feed blindly: again, communist. I don't care about content. I'm here to build and make connections and establish rapport.
CULT
Again, hard times are coming, and hard times breed extreme circumstances that are then met by extreme measures. If I have my way, I fully intend to lean into this future. I even have an idea for a fun little open-source cult blueprint.
What is a cult? A religion that isn't established. Once you get tax-exempt status you become a religion. Those are the rules, just ask David Blaine.
Where am I going with this?
Governance is on the verge of being decentralized, which means we are going to see some pretty strange communities popping up. If you thought diehard sports fans were bad... just wait until crypto goes mainstream and all these assets have diehard cult members at scale.
At the heart of every cult: zealots.
Zealots serve a "higher power". This is where fascism kicks in. Fascism is no longer reserved for the authoritarian right, as we see that the Anti-Fascists are really just left-wing Fascists, looking to control the actions and even thoughts of those around them or risk punishment from their wrath in the form of cancel culture, celebrated rioting, and whatever else.
So why do Fascists get a bad rap?
A zealot serves a higher power, and if that higher power is corrupt, the zealots themselves are inevitably corrupt, while able to justify any horrific action in the name of the "greater good".
A zealot will turn on friends, family, or anyone else to serve the higher power. It's easy to see how children would rat their parents out to the Nazis. The children were fascists, serving the corrupt higher power at all costs. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I pledge allegiance, to the flag...
Therefore, it becomes clear that if fascism is to succeed, the higher power (crypto network / governance structure) must be pure beyond reproach, and righteous rather than self-righteous. Shine the glorious light, my children. Darkness does not need to be battled, as the wicked cannibalize themselves when exposed.
And what of socialism?
In Hard Fork 24, @blocktrades implemented the delay for governance voting. It is now impossible for users to power up a bunch of stake and hijack our network immediately. Now we would have much more warning in the case of said doomsday scenario, giving us time to rally against the enemy.
This change to consensus was socialist in nature. The economic incentive changes were also socialist. The dev fund is socialist. Rewarding block producers is socialist. Allowing stake holders to manipulate inflation is socialist. Everyone on Hive supports socialism whether they are willing to admit it or not. On crypto networks, socialism and anarchism bleed together and are often impossible to separate.
Communism & Anarchism
Using tokens on Hive, we can create almost any kind of governance structure under the sun, throw it at the wall, and see if it sticks. The dinosaurs trying to control the New World got nothing on crypto. They think they have everything under control, but tides can shift quickly in an atmosphere like this.
Conclusion
______ isn't bad, the real world implementations of ______ are bad.
- Communism
- Socialism
- Capitalism
- Republic
- Anarchism
- Fascism
- Free-market
Again, everything around us seems to be imploding back to anarchism so we can build back our systems from ground-zero. Crypto is creating thousands of opt-in borderless networks that compete with each other in the most healthy way possible. Users will choose the networks that suit them, rather than having said government dumped on them by force. This is the definition of anarchism: to be given the right to choose from a wide array of systems that are controlled by ideals and strict rulesets themselves, rather than easily corruptible humans.
Yeah, it's not going to be sunshine and rainbows.
Wildfires allow new life to spring forth,
but we must survive the flame first.
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socialism in essence is not a bad idea. society at the moment is not ready for it, and mind set of most people is/was fucking it up.
from someone who lived in some kind of weird socialism with a "dictator" system as a small kid.
It will always be something in between and I think that's a good thing. The biggest problem is the way people use these words to make themselves look better or to demonize others. By definition, a "socialist dictator" should be impossible, but there are many dictators calling themselves socialist as a tool to justify their actions.
I don't cling to any label, I want to see lots of experimenting by groups without these kinds of tyrants
people are throwing around words left and right. when i see all the commie and nazi calling i feel like USA is again in the cold war, using it to scare people.
looks like the problem is that we as a society never had true democracy nor true socialism.
I feel things are changing though, we’ll be able to do better now if we push the right innovations forward and get involved in building
communism and socialism will never work in an imperfect world. Games will be schooled, politicians will always be narcissists, and even eventually democracies bought. Crumbling down and building back up is the way for the forest.
I live in a country where many things are mixed, socialism and communism it seems. I have also seen some of those behaviors in Hive. Thanks to blockchain I met people who defend anarcho-capitalism, and they have pushed me to read more about the subject and see reality from another point of view.
I think understanding all the systems and the way they have been adapted by society helps us understand how it can be applied in a better way.
I hope we all survive the flames and that blockchain will improve the existence of mankind.
Note: Your posts are inspiring me to read more books to broaden my worldview. :-)
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By the way, I love that song, it's one of the few songs I know in English.
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erm... dēmos ‘the people’ + agōgos ‘leading
So, I couldn't fill the blank lines in your conclusions until you include and add the concept of Demagoguery among the other seven bullet options. :)
Damn I was well prepared to defend Anarcho Communism and Fascist Socialism, but I guess that's preaching to the converted.
Even though I agree with most of you say about politics I really don't like this kind of implementation of Communism, sure I see it myself in a way that the commune are my friends and I care about them more than a random person, but to reward effort equally just does not seem right. It reminds me of the "oh you gifted me a car and you gifted me this pencil, both presents are equally valuable to me" joke.
But like I said generally I agree very much. My mission is to unite the left and the right, because having been in both camps I see the enemy is the same (the elite) and not each other.
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Comunism and socialism is good in concept of sharing equality but in practice, comunism and socialsm is a tyrant and bloody , how social comunist party made bloody story in my country and failed to coup the government.
At this point it's pretty obvious that hive is a cult, you pray to your sugar daddy and he miraculously upvotes your posts :D
I think you misspelled "prostitution"
:)))
... a good idea, to be measured against reality, as always.
There are always middle men where there are people who want to exchange something for something else - remotely. So if I go to the market with my cryptos and I say I want to sell them or buy them, am I not dealing with a middleman platform? With programmers who make the marketplace accessible and with shares that go to the operators through this work? The only thing that works completely without any intermediary is the exchange of things or services face to face, in the physical world. Everything else, if you ask me, is built on intermediaries and brokers.
I am not certain about the decentralization of Hive as one talks in that manner that "it must become as big as the other big players". But once it's big, it shows that it was centralized from the beginning. Anarchism works, from my point of view, only in small and decentral units (best offline). ...
If you ever lived in a communist country, you would not say "socialism" or "communism" so lightly. Dream on!
Bold claim: telling me what I would do in a given situation.
Maybe youre right.
maybe not
I know. I know saying that is pointless. It's the problem that we (I mean those who lived in communist systems and miraculously escaped it) have not managed to teach the world anything about our experience. We can be just happy that we are still alive and that's pretty much it.
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Not sure about all the assessments but REALLY important conversation with a lot of good premises. True, none of these are inherently bad and demonizing any of them is counter-productive to any real discussion...
I've been saying this since even before crypto, and now finally the groundwork has been laid. The new left and right will both be anarchist. Government will exists only to make itself obsolete. The left will say quicker and the right will say slower. In both camps there will be those who believe in money ("humans will always act selfishly") and those who don't ("humans can/should act selflessly"). I'll probably be a moderate/moderate. I believe in experimentation, the more variety, the better and the more cooperation between different ideologies, the better. Friendly competition between different ideologies with a true desire to see what works, that's what I think we should be working for.
Obviously it won't be easy.
Communism, Socialism, Communism will all become outdated concepts. People will try to cling to them but they will make less and less sense because the whole paradigm has changed.
Not upvoting this post because you are communist and there are other posts with smaller payout :-P
"Governments" and "Good ideas"... I think it is impossible to write a totally positive sentence using these two terms.
Anyway, great post @edicted.
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Decentralized socialism works for me! 😀
I've been getting my socialist security monthly check for about 5 years now, and over the past year it has proven it's value in these really tough times.
Unfortunately one of these days it will collapse and those who paid into it will not receive any of the benefit. Luckily we have crypto to soften the blow.
Yeah, I can see that coming eventually. It really doesn't help that congress used the trust fund for it like a piggy bank so many times, and will never pay it back...
Good write up
Good points about various forms of government depending on good implementations of ideas. The poor implementation of a good idea has a similar outcome to a good implementation of a bad idea...
I especially like the concept in blockchain of not trusting individuals, but trusting in code.
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Well, they do, but couch it in ways that encourage voter suppression. Voter ID laws, restricting early and mail-balloting, voter roll purges and the like. All in the name of security.
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Ha... right... and voter suppression actively gives advantage to the right... so even election security is a partisan issue. So weird.
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True communism, true democracy. Both requires highly educated civilization and unselfishness behavior. We, as human being, is not there yet.
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Communist votes ftw!
Tomorrow there is a documentary coming out on voter fraud to fact check those claims, it was done by a pro Trump guy so it will get a knee jerk reaction from all these out of touch with reality fascists you mention.
But I will be watching.
I doubt that has much impact on any party involved, as there is already an abundance of evidence that debunks the "fact checkers" themselves. It's all a matter of trust, and the entities bringing us information are no longer trusted by huge sections of the population.
The thing about trust, is human history is not really full of stories that would make you trust people.
Interesting post!
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Testing something. @edicted plz give a 5% upvote.
test 2?
^ was 10. Do this with 15% now.
And then this with 20.
This post has exploded my head you say things that I share in my thoughts, we are a mixture of different political and social currents.
I live in a country governed by Socialist "Venezuela" but I used to ignore everything, currently I like the anarchist current and I try to apply that HIVE, respecting the right to freedom of the individual.
There are many things to develop in blockchain, but Hive may be the best space to create a society full of transformative consciousness and that can scale to a society with evolved principles.
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We need Blockchain Voting
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