"So if ever a man should ask you, for your business or your name; tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same" #privacy #KYC

#Rousseau was a criminal against humanity.

I'm not pro #democracy. I think democracy is __as flawed__ as other systems, as the problem is the #state itself, but with a very dangerous ideological component - that of #self-government. Democracy proponents defend that through elections and polls we express and participate in government, and that as such, democratically-generated decisions are legitimate and that we're ruling ourselves when we stab ourselves in the neck. This is obviously not the case. Democracy is as autocratic as a monarchy is at the individual level, but it's autocracy through an ideological backdoor. This makes people much more compliant and sedated, and I believe drives us towards #Tocqueville's soft #despotism. I'm not endorsing any other particular system, by the way. I do believe democracy can be valuable at the small scale, where #assemblies are viable and there's actually a chance of representing yourself. But it is no guarantee, nor an ideological good in and of itself. #Democracy #Philosophy #Government #Statism #Anarchism #Politics

We (You, the reader. And I the writer. An essentially everyone else as well) are probably not special. We might be outstanding in some aspects, but we are certainly average in most. This is good. It means we shouldn't be concerning ourselves with dictating how others should live. It frees us and makes us responsible only of our own lives. Which is plenty, I'd say.

I have many contradictions. One of them is that I'd love to see massive adoption of #nostr by the #mainstream #normies (#grownostr), but on the other hand I fear the masses and the effect this would have on the network as a whole and on #freedomOfSpech

#Offgrid is #rightwing speak for #sustainable GM and #ChangeMyMind