"History" is a story written by the winners...
"History" is a story written by the winners...
Let children and randomness govern
If the current insane moment in history teaches us anything, it might be that our systems of governance and power sharing are completely broken. Here is my simple yet radical suggestion for an alternative system: Make sure that decisions at governments, corporations, etc. are made by 51% Children (age 3 > 14), 40% by "random" choice (randomly select people from global population to make decisions, or make decisions directly based on "random" process, such as growth of mycelium networks in a forest), and 9% by current "expert decision makers" (minus the lobbyists). The outcomes would most likely be more sane and the process more entertaining than what the current "rule by the most psychopathic/incapable/corruptible people" system produces.
The Visible Wavelengths on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Related: Cthulhu Spectrum - #Science #Philosophy #Space #Complexity #Biology
The Great Re-Set
"The muse visits during the act of creation, not before." - Roger Ebert
What will be the nickname for this era after it’s over ?
On Order and Disorder
Image is a note from Niklas Luhmann on Zettelkasten: He describes his system as a cybernetic system - A Combination of disorder and order, of lump formation and unpredictable combination realized in ad hoc access. In contrast to today's digital tools, centered on the habit of creating too much order.
#Comment: Order is essentially just a choice of perceiving things from a specific perspective, nothing more or less. Being able to see order and disorder in everything requires relaxation.
The great conspiracy of the Ornithologists
On a crisp autumn day in 1915, 38 ornithologists gathered in the tiny Swiss village of Zimmerwald. Only, they were not actually bird watchers - that was just a cover. These were socialists from all over Europe, meeting to discuss ways to bring peace to a continent ravaged by WW1.
#Comment: "Ornithologists", "Socialists", and "Peace" are mere words, void of meaning until embodied and put into action.
Perspective
Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t? - A handful of scientists have started to train their ears to the worms, grubs and roots underground. They were not prepared for what they heard.
“We Are Witnessing Right Now the Chinafication of Europe” – Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș (Video)
"When the government knows everything about you, where you go, what you eat, where you enter, that's a tyrannical system, and we've seen the system being implemented right now."
EU digital wallet: the race is on for pilot funding, tech supremacy, hearts and minds
eIDAS 2.0 is fast approaching. By September 2023, European Union citizens will have the right to download and populate a digital identity wallet on a smart device. In less than 18 months, Europeans may no longer need physical credentials to travel, work and live anywhere else in the bloc.
'Resist!' Macron faces backlash as he launches digital ID days after French election win
Emmanuel Macron is already sparking fresh fury across France as two days after his re-election, his government launched a new law compliant to Brussels' demands.
Related from earlier on this blog: The Global Grid & Bio-Politics in the age of Identity Dominance
Selected quotes by John.F.Kennedy on the Cryptocracy
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings”
“Today no war has been declared — and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack”
“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”
“It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations”
Be Grateful