Subnostr

I'm reading a book written by some modern day philosophers and they mentioned these three options for dealing with problems:

Senator

Monk

Menance

The senator approach convinces a politician to solve the problem. Perhaps becoming an elected representative of needed. E.g. pass strong privacy laws.

Monk just abandons the problem. For example, don't like being tracked 24/7? Stop using tech.

And their example of going the menance route was the unibomber.

It's an interesting way to frame things. Then they dropped the fourth option: the cyberpunk option. Write software to implement privacy.

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Bill Cypher 1y ago

If they define menace as lawbreaker, then cypherpunks become menaces when they persist even though government has outlawed their activity.

Cypherpunk menaces have higher chance of getting away with it and nonviolence makes it easier to convince others to join you. Far more effective than traditional terrorism like the unabomber.

Dr. Hax 1y ago

I plan on re-reading those two sections, but from what I recall, it was using violence as opposed to making the offender irrellevent.

I suspect the authors would agree that both engage in illegal activity, but I don't remember that being stated explicitly. Because, yeah, the laws are written by those in power, and that's who is being resisted. So of course.