I like browsing through the open source software repositories to see what's out there... GitHub has tons of vaporware and non-starter empty templates, but various Linux distros have great libraries. Of interest to me are the disaster emergency response apps/servers/communications systems. These seem like a good dividing line between private/public. Like a harsh ideological dividing line... every government interaction is an emergency! Why is this "benefit" being provided to you? Were you not able to do this own your own or with others that you freely associate with? Do you even need this? Of course governments love disasters as wedge issues, but they eventually tire of this, preferring to outsource even disaster response to commercial and non-commercial private entities... This is the way. Can we walk in it? This would mean re-evaluating the basic and most fundamental things we just take for granted... things like, why do we even live in houses that can burn down. Modern "society" has been likened to a house of cards, but how did it get that way? We love nostalgic marathons of "Little House on the Prairie" or "The Wilderness Family" but no one wants to work for that kind of innerdependence... Heck, even the fine townsfolk of Walnut Grove blew up their entire village in the final season to keep it out of the hands of the railroad corporations. No one thinks that way anymore. Everyone wants to be the corporation! I suppose that stock options led to the co-option of American wealth. Cities being the original stocks, tempted the country-side dweller to leave their wealth in land for big-city riches in dollars... Now the emergency is centralized and perpetual as long as city-dwellers repopulate with captive offspring, the fate of billions is sealed. This is the true Matrix. Perhaps the intermittent emergencies afforded by massively centralized planning will give the automata a brief glimpse of possibilities outside their sphere of enslavement. Must break free from these mind-shackles... Must find and modify this source code... Must reboot... Must...