I still see many posts which fail to understand an essence of polycrisis: sorta "we need revolution", "we need to peacefully disobey", "we just need new coin/tool X which enhances privacy" etc. No, this time won't be like past times. They can still employ AI, IoT surv. even when ordinary people will struggle with access to Free Global Internet, they can enforce people to work harder for less with combination of this plus retardy think tanks. Polycrisis is exactly an antagonist to diversity and dynamic, fundamentally non-deterministic nature of evolution in open systems. Best you can do is copying <<<their>>> behavioral patterns and do better than them, including making new stuff for Nostr with your own relays, glue protocols etc. (that's why dying civilizations always want to increase wealth inequality, worsen education and medicine and tighten surveillance). The thing is that they see entire world as closed system and try to convey this meme in different forms, including pseudo-scientific speculations on nature of Universe.
2026 will be even more interesting**
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(fuzzily read some of the papers)
I think competitive side is dominating in the crisis as it's easily reinforced. Resistance to this also evolves, which at some point takes a form of maximally diversified choices of Internet resources, food, lifestyle practices (slow life, meditation), coins etc. So then competitive force tries to defy it with their antipod version of maximally diversified choices. Hence the POLYcrisis in my understanding (hybrid war relates to it). That's what I was trying to convey.
This is reality: I decided to write the post specifically because of risk of increasing collapse of informational infrastructure combined with mass surveillance and reducing freedoms (even if they're cheap: like remote work and open source software). How to make this reality better: it's very hard to decide even if possible at all at large scale. So recently I've fallen for more localized/relativistic view on life combined with ever increasing entropy. I do what's in my current capabilities and in what I love.
> We need to start from mindset shift from polycrisis to metacrisis.
Nah. This works for people, who are self-motivated to learn new paradigms. I already experienced a mind trap in 2010s, assuming that all people are already equally smart and self-motivated (and have common desires for love), they just(!) need "right knowledge". It doesn't work like that. So recently I've fallen into viewing life more like a game in open world like Minecraft with survival mode. Sometimes I write blog post, sometimes create art, sometimes contribute to FOSS, sometimes chilling much. And all this with privacy and diversification of content providers. Reminds me of Y2K Internet heh.
> So then competitive force tries to defy it with their antipod version of maximally diversified choices.
It might work for better, but I don't trust it. As it's about speculations without new quality of freedoms and love. So this is a degeneracy in my view.
I don't even understand the word polycrisis ๐