Not everyone is ready to give up from different things. Why should we give up, but not defend our rights?
Imagine at some point your right to use #nostr or other thing you like to use, invested your time and money will be limited or taken, will you just give up again?
You life will be spent on something you created but won’t be able to benefit.
Why we should give up?
Absolutely but centralisation and perverse incentives have created a situation of either fight or create new and better. I cannot think of any centralised system that has given up power willingly.
One of the greatest failings in western society in the past 30-40 years has been the unfettered rise of monopolistic behaviour and companies using political clout and resources to simply destroy competition in the market. Maybe that would be a good place to start.
There is another element here and that is perception. Someone who was brought up with totalitarianism may see some of the freedoms in some “democracies” and consider that worth fighting for whereas people within those systems merely see the deficiencies and consider new systems or methods to be more important to pursue
It is not only perception, it is about experience and privileges we have and can enjoy or just don’t have access.
Probably for you writing in English is nothing special, at the same time I know a lot of fathers in authoritarian states who are scarified their lives to give at least the basic education for their children.
Corrupt regimes don’t allow to grow personalities. It is not perception, it is our reality and painful experience.
That is definitely a big problem. A less educated society is easier to control which is why dictatorships usually purge free thinkers. How to minimise tyranny is a great challenge to humanity.
The education element was so stark in South Africa. After apartheid ended, understandable to give jobs and opportunities to the previously abused black population but the havock it caused due to lack of education was obvious at first. An awfully messy transition that should never have needed to happen.
It is an indictment of centralised power that one calls these basic rights “privileges”. The fight seems endless between those fighting for freedom and rights and those trying to remove them. One would think humanity can do better. At least we have better tools now!
