On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 13:44:55 -0500 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
It's a piss poor pitiful Anarchist, who refuses to use an adversary's infrastructure to harm that adversary's interests.
Of course. But I hope you don't believe that using facebook harms the establishment?
Those who insist on trying to conceal their identities and/or activities from hostile actors at all times take themselves out of the influence game. If you have a protocol for broadcasting a persistent, responsive, influential political message without being identified by well funded surveillance actors, do please share it:
well, obviously crypto is supposed to be used for stuff you want to keep private, not for broadcasting...
Are there any revolutionaries? Is the soul for real change dead? Is everyone medicated, over-eaten, touch-screen hyper-media and everyone is PERFECTLY CONTENT?
Judging by the "social media" channels, practically no one is content;
Right. They want more fascism. Just look at people like quinn and his advocacy of fascist 'progressive' 'health care'.
nearly everyone seems to believe that their ideological adversaries are presently in power and need to be stomped down. I see more people who either call themselves "revolutionaries" or publicly bemoan the fact that there "are no revolutionaries" all the time lately. Of course, they don't know what the word means - they accept self defeating definitions provided to them by a lifetime of exposure to counter- revolutionary propaganda.
As expected, the Internet does amplify human intelligence
If by intelligence you mean stupidity, yes it does.
and mobilizes distributed "smart mobs" in response to perceived problems and challenges. But the Internet also amplifies human stupidity,
=)
and some factions among our rulers have learned how to raise armies of morons in cyberspace. The result is a hotly contested information battle space where multiple factions compete to influence both ephemeral swarms and more durable herd movements. I have never seen anything like the intensity and variety of influence and disinformation projects in progress right now in U.S. broadcast and online media.
Whereas the sane voices are virtually non-existent.
As expected, the future arrives sooner every day as the rate of change continues to accelerate. I see signs of panic and/or desperation everywhere I look at any well established economic power block's publicly visible activities.
I think that's called wishful thinking.
What if there was a revolution and nobody noticed? The answer to that question is all around us right now.
I still have a complete revolution in my pocket, but I guess I'll have to chuck it, if there's no one here...
You say you want a revolution? Congratulations! Radical changes in the physical world - economic, technological and geophysical - are now rendering previously stable political systems obsolete and unmaintainable.
any evidence for that claim?
New institutional templates adapted to new conditions emerge because people adapt their social and economic behavior to new conditions; not because Great Visionary Leaders issue a call to arms. The political agitation and violence we call a "revolution" is only the last stage of the actual revolutionary process, terminating it and establishing a new institutional stability for the benefit of a new set of power players.
We all want to change the world. But if you have a real solution, we all need to see the plan. Restricting its distribution to "secure and anonymous" channels only guarantees it won't reach an audience that can implement it. Where and as surprise actions provide strategic advantage, do use cryptographic technology - IF your co-conspirators are also up to it, which almost never happens in real life. When physical meetings where all electronics are banned are practical, they can facilitate useful goal setting, coordination and planning. The surveillance networks will follow most of your group to and from the meeting place, but otherwise moles and unwitting informants will be the only security risks affecting the meeting itself.
A proposed revolution in communications security that would have blinded State and Corporate actors to "private" network comms never got off the ground and so could be said to have failed.
Yep.
But a real, naturally occurring revolution is in progress anyway: Come back in 50 years and you will hardly know the place.
Yep. Well, actually, it will look a lot like Brave New World or worse. So it would be pretty easy to recognize or know the practical implementation of Huxley's musings. With a good deal of outright brutalism a la Orwell mixed in, probably.
:o)
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