I think you misunderstand the nature of anarchy that may be being
posited. The absence of government does not preclude, or necessitate the
presence of violence or danger. Indeed some of the oldest participatory
communities in the world (certain Swiss cantons) and some of the newest
(eg. Somaliland) incorporate decentralised models of participatory
shared responsibilities and contract-based services - sweep/pave/protect
the streets and you get paid n-amount of [monetary value], and if they
fail, or are disintermediated by competitors and/or societal changes,
then they are replaced or fired*. No one thinks twice about this with
their tech; yet somehow civic particpation is seen as precious requiring
an immutable/eternal power structure.
Think outside the box and good things can be allowed to happen.
Greets to all,
Lee
* Sometimes known as "anarcho-capitalism"
On 10/11/2020 06:18, davidicus wrote:
Dear Gramps,
That the American public has reached a stage of (de)evolution to the
point where some folks see "guns" somehow as "liberatory" and not see
that their society (and government) has amassed the largest military
in history aided and abetted by the armaments and security complexes
(including said gun manufacturers), once again illustrates the
contradictions of (communicative) capitalism.
"Muskets vs. Military Style Assault Rifles" or "Guns vs. Butter" are
questions of and about governance, governmentality, public policy and
yes, too, at times "market failure" (whether on questions of Pandemic,
Climate Change or Digital Divides). Such are the myriad ways in which
public choices are also about governance, governmentality and the
demos. To suggest that anarchy is only about non-governance strikes
me as a type of magical thinking particularly in a global system of
nation-states, firms, communities that have elected or appointed
governmentalities and modes / models of governance. A co-operative,
credit union, school board or voluntary fire fighters team all have
employed modes of governance, just as larger geographic entities
have. All can potentially be corrupt or corrupted, but to somehow
imagine that the baby should be thrown out in the name of 'anarchy'
seems to be a problematic reading from the political right or
libertarian techies.
Kind Regards,
~david
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*David Sadoway * PhD MRM BES(Hons)
Faculty & Instructor. /Geography & The Environment. /
Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
https://www.kpu.ca/arts/geography/faculty/david-sadoway
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Sadoway
/KPU is located on the //unceded lands & waters of the
Kwantlen, Katzie, Musqueum, Tsawwassen, Semihamoo, Qayqayt, Sto:Lo and
Kwikwetlen Peoples.
/
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 21:32, grarpamp <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/call-for-proposals/
> liberatory ideas
> government (or governance)
These are mutually exclusive.
> governance
> anarchic
These are mututally exclusive.
> Digital Government Research
> innovations in digital politics and government
Permanent lifelong intergenerational databases
of all lives, transactions, words, thoughts, love,
DNA, surveillance, spying, lightswitch digital control
of the "misinformation" that is your mind and body,
censorship, rampant media bias, forced lockdown and
inoculation, license logon and permission required
for all daily activities including authenticating to
your toilet bowl for the morning piss, checkpointed
biometric embedded body tags, papers please travel,
encryption bans, firearm bans, 6G reporting in realtime,
facial gait voice analysis, web bugs, NSA, GovCorp in
everything you do, and much much more you despots
have yet to dream up, beyond all above which you've
already implemented.
> models of governance
All such in all symposiums on same on this so called "liberation"
list in recent years have all been, disgustingly, about how to keep
building further structures of enslavement over other harmless humans
who've done nothing to you, through forcing yourself and your will
over
them, ultimately under threat of death. You are guilty.
So for remainder of this month, instead of titillating yourselves
over yet another such boring and wrong conference...
go search, read, and watch...
Voluntaryism, Libertarian, peace love and Anarchism,
Taxation is Theft, War is Murder, Austrian Economics / Free Markets,
Bitcoin documentaries, Anarcho Capitalism, Non Aggression Principle,
Natural Law, etc... and yes, even...
> crypto-anarchism
Anything but yet more forcing yourself over others via non
"liberatory ideas" scam of "democracy" and digital govern[ment|nance].
Then come back and talk about what actions of ungovernance
need done towards reaching living in an actual state of liberation.
Because what's being talked 100:1 on this list has
absolutely not been actual liberation, nor even tech,
but more politically entrenched systems of GovCorp
power and control.
That's very bad.
For you.
And your children.
And you know it.
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