13 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 8 Apr 2023 \ on: Becoming ungovernable in a digital age bitcoin
I see 4 basic approaches:
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memeing - this is what most people are doing because this game is natural for our times. See punk6529's twitter treads - he's a self-described meme maximalist and seems to seriously believe that NFTs help in this quest. 3D games / VR are an important vector here. There was a Bitcoin-focused Minecraft server advertised here recently; I think it failed "choosing and rejecting technologies based on their potential to control and surveil you" miserably so I didn't comment on it but others seem to like it.
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Balajism - read "The Network State". Your dive into Zomia is what Balaji describes as "history mining" and it is indeed the first step. I offer Communist Czechoslovakia as a better example: look up Ketman, Havel's parallel society, paralelnipolis.cz etc.
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Starting from economic opportunities. This approach sees the main problem in the lack of income opportunities for people without bank accounts. Resolve this and the culture will build itself.
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technology - this: "carefully choosing and rejecting technologies based on their potential to control and surveil you" should be the start. Nostr is a great start. Building a replacement for Github is even better. But we need to go much further. Getting rid of DNS with something like DID would be a major achievement. The problem is that very few people are willing and able to go there.