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The terms "fascist" and "fascism" are showing up a lot recently, and all too often, their use reveals the speaker's ignorance about what the terms mean. Some time ago, I decided to get it from the horse's mouth and see what Mussolini said fascism is, by reading his and co-author Gentile's "Fascist Manifesto". The other day, I asked chat gpt to summarize it for me, and the answer seems pretty accurate to me. Here's that conversation:
Can you summarize Mussolini and Gentile's Fascist Manifesto into bullet points?
ChatGPT
Certainly, here are some key points from Mussolini and Gentile's Fascist Manifesto:
• Rejection of liberal democracy and the parliamentary system.
• Belief in the superiority of the state over the individual.
• Advocacy for a corporatist economic system in which the state guides and regulates economic activity.
• Promotion of a "national community" based on shared identity, culture, and history.
• Emphasis on militarism, imperialism, and expansionism as a means of achieving national greatness.
• Rejection of internationalism and socialism, and advocacy for a form of nationalist socialism.
• Emphasis on the importance of leadership, discipline, and obedience to authority.
• Advocacy for the use of violence and coercion to achieve political goals.
• Rejection of pacifism and belief in the necessity of war for national and racial survival.
These are just some of the key principles of Fascism as outlined in the manifesto, but they provide a good overview of the ideology.
What does it say about free speech and the media?
ChatGPT
The Fascist Manifesto doesn't specifically address the issue of free speech and the media, but historically, Fascist regimes have tended to suppress free speech and control the media in order to promote their ideology and suppress dissent. Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy, for example, tightly controlled the press and used propaganda to manipulate public opinion. Similarly, Nazi Germany under Hitler heavily censored and controlled the media, using it as a tool to spread propaganda and suppress dissenting views. So while the Fascist Manifesto may not explicitly address free speech and the media, the historical record suggests that Fascist regimes tend to be hostile to free speech and press freedom.
What does it say about how state leaders are selected?
ChatGPT
The Fascist Manifesto doesn't provide detailed guidelines on how state leaders should be selected, but it emphasizes the importance of strong leadership and the authority of the state. The manifesto suggests that the state should have a strong, centralized government led by a single, powerful leader who is able to exercise control over all aspects of society.
In practice, Fascist regimes have tended to place a great deal of emphasis on the personality and authority of the leader, often elevating them to a position of almost divine reverence. In Italy, Mussolini was the undisputed leader of the Fascist government and had absolute control over the government and military. Similarly, in Nazi Germany, Hitler was viewed as the embodiment of the Nazi party and the German nation.
Overall, while the Fascist Manifesto doesn't provide a specific process for selecting state leaders, it does emphasize the importance of strong, centralized leadership and the authority of the state. In practice, this has often meant the elevation of a single, charismatic leader who is able to exert total control over the government and society
So, if you are into individual rights, if you believe that government's role is to protect freedom, if you favor the decentralization of authority, if you believe that major elements of society should not be subject to absolute control by the state or state created entities (you know, like bitcoin maxi's), then you are not a fascist.
On one of my browsers, I have bitlisten.com as the landing page when I open a new tab. I keep the sound muted, but it's cool to see all the bitcoin transactions happening in realtime, and the bubbles are a good way of showing the varying amounts of each transaction. Some of them are huge transactions.
It started as a brief tour of Midjourney, but, like the sorcerer’s apprentice, I made a few naive incantations, and the next thing I knew, I found myself in a chamber with artifacts from some lost civilization, perhaps one that was seeded by aliens. The chamber is full of artifacts carved from blocks of limestone, granite, gold and lapis lazuli. Some of the hieroglyphs look familiar in an archetypal sense, but their exact meaning remains a mystery.
It looks like I’ll be here for quite awhile, as the chamber extends deeper into the darkness. If I can chant the right spells, maybe more of this ancient and futuristic civilization will reveal itself. Perhaps I can learn why they disappeared, leaving only these treasures behind.
I am submitting herewith the final version of my initial discoveries. As I learn more magic phrases, I hope to cast a light on more artifacts, and, hopefully, find a way home from this mid journey magical mystery “3 hour” tour. Am I lost in a cave on Giligan’s Island? Only time will tell. https://youtu.be/-j5buI_hecQ
Avian Metamorphs
Artifacts of the Mind
What, you don't like the Creature From Jekyll Island?
Anything worthwhile can be voluntarily swarm funded.
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Shooting the Pier
Yours Truly, Fiji, 2017.
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." Joseph Campbell
Yes it is Duncan. Thanks for the kind words.
An ocean wave can travel a thousand miles before it breaks on a point, reef, or sandbar. But the water doesn’t travel a thousand miles, it’s only the wave that is moving through the water. So what is the wave? Imagine throwing a sheet over an invisible person. Now you can see that there is something there and you have a rough idea of its form. As the wave reaches the place where it breaks, it begins to feel the bottom, rises up, and another layer of visibility emerges, as the local topography and circumstances add fidelity to the wave shape.
Tracing the wave’s origins back in time, we find a fetch of sustained winds, a thousand miles away, caused by convection, an energy transference. As the wind hits the surface, little ripples are pushed forward. And then, in a self organizing way, those wind driven little ripples merge to become bigger ripples, and those bigger ripples merge, in harmonic resonance, to become bigger and bigger waves, in longer and longer frequencies.
Bitcoin is digital energy. Like light, it can be thought of as both wave and quanta. What form the wave ultimately takes will depend on the energy and duration of the fetch, and the circumstances of the shorelines it reaches. At the current bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment, if I'm not mistaken, a bitcoin averages around 143,000 kwh’s of digitized energy and a new one emerges in the fetch every 10 minutes or so. In this analogy, think of changes in wind energy as a change in the mining difficulty adjustment. If this is so, then a satoshi (think of it as a little ripple) is currently around .0143 kwh’s of digitized energy.
The form that a bitcoin wave takes, when circumstances transmute its energy into something physical, will depend on the topography of the shorelines it reaches. The cumulative effects of many individual choices (ripples to waves), acted on by local circumstances, will determine the ultimate shape of a breaking bitcoin wave.
When it comes to local circumstances, waves have really good shape in El Salvador. I can say from personal experience that Las Flores and Punta Mango both sculpt beautiful waves from a good groundswell. And it looks like the bitcoin waves reaching El Salvador’s shores are shaping up beautifully too.
Kwh's digitized in this block?
Why would a Board of Weights and Measurements do that? To maintain price stability, i.e., to maintain the price per square foot at a constant level. Absurd? Yes, but isn't that what the Federal Reserve is doing?
Can a relay run algos on its users?
Imagine if you were a builder and before you start work each day, you need to check with the Board of Weights and Measurements to make sure they hadn't lengthened or shortened the distance of an inch. Maybe on a given day, the Board increases the length of an inch by .25%, so for that day's construction activity, you'll need to use your old measuring tape, then adjust the measurement by all increases and decreases that the Board had issued since you bought the tape measure. Obviously, that's absurd way to build because an unchangeable unit of measurement is essential to buidling. It's absurd to use a unit of measurement that is constant changing, but that is how value is measured these days, in fiat currency.
It's fascinating to watch so many of you building on top of nostr. Kudos to all of you with the skills and motivation to take this leap of faith into a new mode, perhaps a new paradigm of social interaction. Coming from someone lacking deep understanding about how relays work, I 'd like to raise a couple issues that perhaps are not as vexing as I imagine they could be. First, in order to scale, I imagine an expanding nostr universe will require either more relays or higher capacity pay financed relays. If a paid relay gets big enough, could it run data analytics on the pubkeys using it's service? Could they run algo's to look at likes and zaps and then direct paid targeted advertising, as we see on facebook or instagram? Is there (or should there be) a maximum size or capacity for a relay?
Second issue: could relay operators face civil liability if pubkeys using their relay , openly conspired to launch an attack on someone? Will the answer to this issue depend on the jurisdiction of the place where the relay resides? Could that push relay operators to more "friendly" jurisdictions and away from places where they could be sued?
"We hold merely that because [govt. restrictions on the release of public key encryption software] challenged here applies directly to scientific expression, vests boundless discretion in government officials, and lacks adequate procedural safeguards, it constitutes an impermissible prior restraint on speech."
