Admitted member of Anonymous.
Anonymous could change the world, but I don’t think they have a goal other than to fight for freedom.
Freedom just isn’t enough any more.
The ultimate freedom is not to have your sovereignty stripped from you.
The monetary system we are currently enmeshed in makes us all hostages, uses the threat of stripping our sovereignty to get us to comply. There is nothing voluntary about it. It’s as compulsory as any draft.
Liberating ourselves from this system should be the goal of any movement fighting for freedom.
The only thing that can change the world is trust.
Bruce Sterling did a short story called Maneki Neko. That is the future we are destined to have. That is what Anonymous should be working towards.
Anything else is doomed to fail.
It’s all or nothing.
Maneki neko describes a network-mediated gift economy. Members are differentiated by the particular sub-network they belong to. The network sends you a stream of messages telling you to do various inscrutable things, like to buy a guy a cup of coffee, or to buy a bottle of bay rum aftershave. only the AI behind the network knows the big picture, but it is paying back favors for favors.
On the surface this sounds ideal, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on whether this subjugation to the AI authority isn’t just as bad as our daily lives today. Yes it’s novel, but would we want to put up with constantly paying off someone else’s favors? Wouldn’t we want to run our own personal gift economies.
Just a thought.
The overarching issue is *trust*. See how the American has no trust in the way things are run in Japan? Self-organized trust networks all coalescing into one is the future. A future where the best — not worst — are rewarded. There is zero trust in the way things are run today. We are under the thumbs of outright sociopaths. The worst are the ones with the rewards.