xeleriac

something to know about me is that i don't have a whole lot of faith in cryptography and computer science as a means of preserving or securing my freedom. tremendous tools, sure. they're just not the destination.

now don't get me wrong, i dig cypherpunk, i am into it. i'm a bonerfide privacy advocate. antiauthoritarian~antiestablishment~abolitionist: triple A shit. plus throw in a little agora et al but i confess i'm more of a solarpunk~lunarpunk kinda guy. a re4l back-to-the-lander.

i am big on community. and here's what the privacy community is lacking: offline community.

how can us, a bunch of privacy, security, and anonymity folks build community if we're routinely hush-hush and apprehensive about sharing info about our personal lives with others? i say this because it is poor etiquette to de-anonymize oneself or others in this brand of subculture. i totally get it, i do i do. but i find it hard. it's just not a great foundation for a living, breathing human community arrangement.

like i said, i'm big on genuine afk community... like, in the flesh with other likeminded, self-actualized individuals. digital communing? not so much. i think online collectives of “users” are a sorry substitute for the true blue (and green) thang. with regards to self-education? the web has been a resource with no equal. i will give it that. erudites stand up.

so the question to me is... how do we allow our liberation to permeate our existence in a way that brings people together in the spirit of freedom, love, and truth? how do we bring that sweet shit about?

i can tell you right now, better VPS's, VM's and frameworks won't save us. Faster hardware and larger storage is just more consumerism. We want to do more with less—not more with more. Right? Materialism is a dead end. Resources are good. We want resources. Those are important, but consumer bullshit is not.

We need people networking, starting free enterprises, teaching, creating, destroying. organizing for our future, rejecting bondage with impunity.

despite the forces of conformity gone amok in modern dominator society, i know good work is being done all over the place.

i think more people are taking risks and getting more comfortable with dissent. some examples include, but not limited to, derrick broze's freedom cells, second realms, intentional communities, private land trusts, countereconomics.

if you like 2 lurn more, please indulge in this fat sack of hackliberty resources: https://forum.hackliberty.org/t/hack-liberty-cypherpunk-resources/17

get involved in your own liberation, today!