nostr:nprofile1qqsrvxtz7pjs9puh9dhgm38j4j0ysngc0lc623n309zgg8ydmt5mlfqpzamhxue69uhhsmtj9e6hxetwdaehgu3wdaexwtcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8x6tpd4ehgu3wvdhk6tcnermzm Well (long philosophical post ahead), it's not an official set of ideas or anything like that. But the thing is that I've come to understand that the medieval era, though it surely had its limitations and abuses, was a more organic and natural social organization. The modern State as we know it originated after the Peace of Westphalia around the 17th century, where the States began to be self soverign, self legitimazing and absolutist by "fiat", through their own constitutions (the medieval monarchy was not yet the absolute monarchy). Because of human nature, I do not believe a horizontal society is possible, so there will always be a hierarchy, and I think that one that emerges organically and can be disputed is more legitimate. But we cannot (and should not) go back in time, and the medieval era is just history, so we must learn a lesson from it: a society free from the absolute modern hegelian Leviathan is possible, and we can (re)build a more natural order with our modern tools (including our cyber tools, like bitcoin and nostr), hence cybermedievalism. To "practice" it in my life, I just ignore and live around the State's authority as much as possible, keeping my personal and even professional relations organic and "peer to peer", without submiting every interaction to the State's mediation. If you are interested, I've got a lot of inspiration from Hilaire Belloc's and Chesterton's ideas, and for some extra juice, look for brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho's teachings on the Revolutionary Mentality and the permanent increase of the modern State. There is some content in english, but not sure what you'll be able to find. We can talk more later too.
Absolutely fascinating! I've known a few conservative and traditionalist Catholics who previously recommended the works of Belloc and Chesterton in general but have yet to run into someone connecting them to medievalism or Bitcoin. And Olvao de Carvalho is totally unknown to me. I'll have to look him up.
Any particular starting points you'd recommend for any of them? That is, any specific works that would help to better put together and understand the worldview you're describing?
Sure. Look for Economics for Helen, The Servile State, and An Essay on the Restlration of Property, by Belloc. By Chesterton, An Outline of Sanity. These books are their views on social and economic problems and the outlines of what came to be called "distributism". About Olavo de Carvalho, I found some content here
https://academy.olavodecarvalho.com
And here
https://olavodecarvalho.org/category/english/
He is very very well known in Brazil. He is more known for his political commentaries, but has a vast philosophical work. Unfortunately his magnum opus (in book form at least, since his true magum opus is his philosophy course with more than 500 lessons), O Jardim das Aflições (The Garden of Afflictions) remains untranslated, but a book in english was published recently, The Olavo de Carvalho Reader. Don't know what's in there yet.
Olavo said that there should be a dialog between the catholic social and economic thought and the austrian school, so Chesterton and Belloc should be viewd side by side with the likes of Mises and Hayek for the pieces to be put together.
A follower of his told him about Bitcoin once, but his response was that he was already too old to dedicate the necessary time to comprehend it (he passed away some years later), and told the student he should write about it. From this, the book Bitcoin Redpill, by Renato Amoedo, came about.
