I use both nostr (on amethyst) and mastodon. I can't help feeling better on nostr.

I can say of myself that I am a pretty naive person. I tend to believe spontaneously people when they tell me something. I can also say of myself that I am relatively slow to understand. I tend do ask naive questions when the meaning of something is not clear to me. I happen to be mocked for this. For a long time, I believed that I was the issue. I did not have enough legitimacy. I did not have enough culture. My questions were poorly phrased. I was simply not enough. However, despite my auto-repression self protective system not to look dumb, a part of me would occasionally find the crack to let a silly question go out. It was only when I was able to go over the embarrassment phase, when I found the courage to insist, or even ask further questions to understand better, that I could realize that the person in front of me actually did not have the answers. That their understanding was quite superficial. And that their mocking was essentially their own protective system, a reverse mirror of mine. Those experiences, first unconscious, are what let this part of me keep a tiny room. As I become more mature emotionally, I can see it with more clarity. Accept it. Stand by it. Love it. I even chose to give it more space. We should never be afraid to ask questions.

It's only because I made the same confusion when I first discovered Zapwork 😅

My current short answer would be: by establishing themselves as the state. It is still a work of understanding in progress, but as I see it, modern states are byproducts of capitalism, not opposing structures. The following note dives into it. I would add an historical perspective that modern states and democracies were established by what I would call a oligopoly of bourgeois employers accessing power thanks to the industrial revolution and creating a settlement institution for themselves. In the name of the people, but with an entry price (cens). Please let me know what you think of it.

It is what I have seen on Bittasker. Maybe confusing it with zapwork?

Bayer?

"Transformation often arrives not through power, but through cracks, confusions, compost, and companionship." Báyò Akómoláfé

Daily commute? 😄

I once read something really interesting about scam and us just being human: we need to trust each other at some point to survive. Being scammed would then just be the occasional price to pay to be able to live together.

Aside the distraction and media circus, this is actually very related. Dynamics of american politics can bring or stop a war. Epstein files impact the dynamics of american politics Epstein files are also linked to Israel, which is also implicated in an potential (current?) war against Iran.

Thank you for the precision and reference. Thomas Sowell's work seems very interesting. I would not define myself as a marxist. As spotted in the post, anarchist comes first. I believe putting certain things in the commons is necessary to guarantee freedom, but also in free market. I reject statism and favor a convivialist-local scale. My main pain point with capitalism is about how to prevent monopolies and capital concentration to occur. I have come to think that free market is not enough and capitalism logically ends up forming a crony elit of oligarchs. Regarding sexual unconstrained behaviour and looking at history, it seems to me that it is more a general trend for elites than a marxist thing, only getting worse at the end of an era.

Thank you for that. Challenges, especially of perspective, are what make them evolve. I am building mine thanks to confrontations of ideas and perspectives I have come across. So it's really an invitation to anyone who want to have sincere and honest talk about it. I did not now about spiral dynamics or the work of Ken Silver but I will check this and it resonates for me. "The question therefore becomes, which kind of capitalism AND communism AND much more on other dimensions do I want to represent." I love this sentence. Words do indeed carry a lot of weight, I agree I should take care of that, knowing that I need them to communicate with others and call a cat a cat. But this is the main issue. What are we even exactly talking about when we use words such as capitalism or communism? We all have our own biased perception. This takes work, patience and commitment to define and refine the right words to communicate with others and pass this biases. This work I am willing to do.

I am not. You tackle my bio, I answer. If you are not interested in debating and sharing information, what are you doing here?

It can go both ways.

Really? Like what?

I agree. At the same time, I need to participate in this world. So I put ephemeral words on the current state of my political vision of the word. Feel free to challenge it.

I have received mine today 🙂