Reminds me of this thing my parents used to fuss about called "church". It's hard to believe that people used to kill and be killed over their belief systems. Beliefs they professed to be truths. Truths because of faith. All so they could provide answers to questions before they were comfortable with questions in search of meaning. All so they could produce a one or a zero, black or white, right or wrong, good or evil. All this smoke and mirrors so they could ignore how incredibly vast everything was and still is. There are no absolutes. Humans mostly stopped wide-scale killing because god had their back. Now they mainly only kill at that rate because their president has their back or their {insert leader/father-figure with the answers} gives them the courage. Large-scale killing is on the decline, and it's no coincidence humans have more access to information than ever before. Ignorance is pretty dangerous stuff; I'd bet more dangerous than smoking, heroin, and driving completely blitzed, put together. Times, like, three. Irrelevancy is the fate of those lacking innovation. Every great empire, like every huge conglomerate, eventually plays Goliath to little David. Except, as you quite nicely stated, David doesn't even show up to the battle in the drama of our reality. Instead, David transcends the paradigms of conflict Goliath expects, leaving a quiet and empty battlefield to a confused "opponent". One by one, the crowd leaves. People go home, people go work their crops, people learn new things Goliath is soon forgotten and David himself become irrelevant. --- Quantum entanglement leads, eventually, to quantum computers and the next generation of everything. Every piece of security software re-audited, at the very least. All our encryption threatened if not outright broken within months. Goliath tries desperately to read but cannot see the screen. Goliath asks Hilda to help, and she wisely asks the smartest little guy to help Goliath understand. David finished the "Plum3/7" QC and heard Hilda announce the search for QC research. Some of David's students go to help, meanwhile, David hacks away with the greatest minds throughout the world. Goliath makes a new weapon and a better fleshlight. David and colleagues become one hive mind known as (@. Goliath begins taxation attacks and regulation warfare. (@ transcends biology, mines the planet's most dense material all at once by tapping into subtle electro-magnetic fields that flow through all living things. (@ grows ever larger as more and more people shed their human form to adopt their new form. Goliath and Hilda change their names to Go and Hi. They tax carbon, though no one pays it, just like they don't pay the quantum tax. Soon, Go and Hi go bye bye. (@ transforms the earth into a massive mind, comprised of the computational power of the density of all matter, powered by every human willing to contribute. Then, the earth itself becomes a massive electromagnet through powers I can't understand. Everything collapses into itself and the planet begins sucking up the surrounding light year of space matter. Now a huge black hole with every conscious mind working on thoughts that our human minds are incapable of conceiving, a certain harmony is reached as earth begins to communicate with all of the other ancient civilizations that reached such a level of being. Black holes are no more holes in space than are donut holes for breakfast. They are super massive insanely dense computational objects containing the conscious minds of billions of people. Hope you enjoyed! Three On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 12:11:37 -0800 coderman wrote:

On 11/1/15, intelemetry wrote:

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... I would suggest you consider the countereconomics work of SEK (e.g. agorism) and Vaclav Benda. Benda is an interesting case because he did his work on parallel structures while under the Soviet Union.

The conclusion was that -- in the presence of an oppressive state -- a robust solution was an overlay of private and hidden societies as opposed to direct overt warfare with the state.

supplant the state with multiplicity of better mechanisms, and through this usurp the power and authority of the state, until nothing left but hollow fictions of formality (of former state).