On Monday, August 6, 2018, 7:26:56 PM PDT, Douglas Lucas
   <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
   >Hi,
   On 08/06/18 13:06, jim bell wrote:
   >> I've long believed that AP will "work" if only a few thousand
   >> well-targeted government employees are killed.
   >> It's basically a race:  If the public is shown good evidence that
   >> government can be taken down, they will decide that government
   SHOULD be
   >> taken down.
   >Would not the public also need to be shown evidence that there exists
   an
   alternate system they can switch to which is better?
   There really isn't anything I could do to "direct" an AP-type system.
   It's what it is:  It's like mathematics, there are debates about
   whether mathematics was "discovered" or "invented"?    Did anybody have
   a choice in the matter?
   [1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/great-math-myster
   y/
   From the beginning, I knew I could tell people what I would do if I ran
   an AP-type organization, but that doesn't mean I could stop anybody
   else who wanted to run a different system.  So it was almost entirely
   out of my hands.
   And one of the things which was very clear to me, before I released AP
   Part 1,  was this:  Ordinary 'politics' works by letting 51% of the
   population decide how things will run, or letting 51% of the
   legislature make such a decision.   To accomplish something, that 51%
   have to be convinced to do that.   That's often very hard.   AP, on the
   other hand, works if only a tiny fraction of society (say, 1%, or even
   less) decides to employ it.   It will work even if most people don't
   LIKE it, or are even scared of it.  Sorry, I couldn't have designed it
   any other way.
   × (BUTTON)
    >Commoners I know
   backpedal slowly when anyone unusual mentions overthrowing GovCorp.
   They
   quickly realize it would interfere with their scheduled playdates with
   their television sets. They are not friends of anyone who is highly
   different. I think the millions of masses will only go along with
   replacing the government when there exists an alternative that is
   already providing benefits they can receive. Otherwise, inertia.
   >Doug
   Neither I, nor they, really have a choice in the matter.  Once I
   realized what AP truly was, weeks before I wrote Part 1 of the AP
   essay,  I knew that I really only had two choices:   Do I reveal it?
   And when do I reveal it?   I decided the first question, then wrote the
   first part of the 10-part essay.   Then I considered whether releasing
   that essay would allow the government (any government) to stop it.
   After a few weeks of consideration, I concluded that no, it was
   inevitable.  So, I then released it, onto the Digitaliberty email list,
   run by Bill Frezza.  Bill was interested in using computer technology
   to allow the public to achieve freedom, but I think he took one look at
   AP, Part 1, and was probably terrified at what it represented.
   Fortunately, somebody saw it, and copied it onto the Cypherpunks list,
   which I hadn't even heard of at the time.
                    Jim Bell

References

   1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/great-math-mystery/