Quote from: contagion on December 31, 2014, 02:18:32 AM

Quote from: CoinCube on December 31, 2014, 02:13:05 AM

Your philosophical argument above is an oversimplification in that statism is itself natural.

What is unnatural is the Tragedy of the Commons when the statism grows beyond the Dunbar limit that human tribes were historically equipped to live in. In the primitive, post-paleozoic, hunter-gatherer time period, natural forces (feedback loop) prevented statism from outgrowing the Dunbar limit.

All I am proposing is we use technology to restore the feedback loop, i.e. to give the individual sovereignty to opt out of non-local community taxation. Thus restoring our Contentionism. We will not be anonymous in our local communities where our physical presence is.

Quote from: CoinCube on December 31, 2014, 02:13:05 AM

Quote from: contagion on December 29, 2014, 05:59:58 AM

I envision local, townhall direct hands on government (where you know every body within your Dunbar number limit) will be the surviving and thriving form of limited government that I envision will be enabled and sustained by the paradigm I promoted in my prior 3 posts.
I can dream can't I?

It is a beautiful dream.

It can even do the community welfare more optimally.

Contagion I believe we are in agreement.

However, as we discussed previously socialism is likely to overshoot before it stabilizes in diminishing role. Anonymity is unlikely to rise sufficiently fast enough to limit this overshoot. The near term future (our lifetimes) will probably consist of a progressive and unrelenting move towards centralized one world government.

Quote from: contagion on December 29, 2014, 04:03:53 AM

my thesis is that knowledge isn't fungible and can't be financed, thus it really can't be centralized and controlled and thus the government must eradicate the Knowledge Age if the government is to survive. In short, there is war ahead and only one side can survive. If the government wins, humanity loses.

I hope there is no war. If anonymity and cryptocurrency actually grew fast enough to limit the overshoot of socialism then such a conflict might be inevitable. However, if it grows more slowly then such a conflict need not necessarily occur.

It is better not to attack a doomed but still strong system in a frontal assault. A superior choice is to quietly prepare for a transition to be implemented when that system is on its deathbed. Communism was not defeated by the west it defeated itself. Similarly socialism will not be defeated by anonymity it will defeat itself. Anonymity and cryptocurrency are simply tools to accelerate, smooth and facilitate the transition to a predetermined outcome. I believe the coming socialist overshoot is a necessary prerequisite for the transition to a better system. The road we are on may end at your dream but it winds through NWO.