Testing if my post will appear in a community after joining it. By the way, I do not consider myself an Anarchist. I consider myself a Libertarian. I just want to talk.
I have a few questions for Nostr anarchists. What are the requirements in order for something to be considered a government?
This test failed as well. I officially have no clue how notes appear in communities. Maybe I need a new client?
monopoly or open goal of monopoly
"you can't bring justice for a murder victim, only we can"
This, exactly this.
And once one monopoly is constructed, it can be leveraged to create more and bigger mobopolies, up to the maximum limit at which that society can survive the parasite-load.
Also, it stopped making sense when we got cameras in everyone's pockets and courts still couldn't consistently get convictions on cops committing murder on video.
And then society never adjusted between the invention of pocket cameras and the invention of deepfake videos. Soon, neither courts nor the simple process of proving a fact will be up to date methods of handling governance anymore. Intuition and interpersonal character testing will become everyone's only authorities to trust. That's exciting, except terrifying because people seem terrifyingly ill-equipped for it.
Terrifying, because most people will accept "appeal to authority" as the arbiter of truth, rather than develop skills.
So, the problem that's been growing since before I was born, but worse and faster...
It's a game whose creators can't win it. In the end, either honesty wins, or everyone loses.
What if the state hands out permits? Does that automatically make anyone who recieves such a permit a part of the state? Also, what if there are two separate organizations with a mutual truce? Are they two governments? One government? No government?
Permits - either make you part of the state or complicit with the state, at least to the extent that your implicit agreement to uphold their terms enables them to label you a traitor if you defy them
2 organizations - basically 1 government to me, e.g. feds and town cops share a monopoly
What if it's 3 organizations? 4 organizations? What if every person individually decides if they will try to use force against others and who else they will allow to use force? Is it any less of a government if they are fractured into a collaboration between a million little pieces?
I don't really use the word "government" imternally but the American military industrial complex and its associated global deep state have a million little pieces and they are one unit controlling most of the territory on earth
*internally
Shit dude, if you don't use the word government then forget this entire conversation. Dismissing the question on semantic grounds is 100% valid and I respect it.
Do you consider yourself an anarchist?
Eugh, it's late so I've got to turn off my phone. If you answer I'll read it in the morning.
Sleep well 🤙
I consider myself an anarchist on the basis that up until deep fakes got too close to good, I figured we should just defund the police and make everyone wear body cameras and put security cameras everywhere and generally make it impossible to shoot anyone without justification without creating the justification for someone else to shoot you
Now idk if anarchy is even relevant anymore or if the world is just gonna collapse into AI driven chaos for the foreseeable future regardless of human ideology
Was anarchy relevant back before body cameras and security cameras? Was anarchy relevant back when we had to rely on witness testimony?
Back when there was no global force like the military industrial complex to stop every anarchy, they all stopped and got replaced anyway. Seems people always ended up doing chaos with it and wanting a system to make the chaos stop. I assume if everyone woke up smart one day 10 years ago, after camera phones but before deep fakes, they'd have decided the system isn't needed anymore.
