hack land iii
if you read hack land ii, it should be understood that land is not anyone's property. we can claim and maintain territory, but never “real estate” or “private property”, which is part of a shell game invented by swindlers long ago. going forward i will use the words 'territory' and 'land' interchangeably.
in the 2023 publication of a hacker's mind, author bruce schneier frames hacking as something that pretty well targets the state, its institutions and corporate partners. he does highlight systems in general, but the rhetoric he uses throughout the book is that wE MuSt PrOtEcT oUr DeMoCrAzcy fRoM tHe bAd hAx.
from the perspective i hold about land sovereignty, schneier's book gave me an occasion to examine the hacking analogy of this increasingly degenerate technocratic neofeudal state of which he so stupidly endorses.
in a way, central planners and the mafia they work for are the ones who have hacked the way we used to interact with the lands that sustain us, which were healthier ways largely in equilibrium with nature.
the predators themselves are the ones who forged the modern land title/torrens title system (formerly a deed-based system) and then forced everyone to conform to it. more on that later.
they essentially mimicked how animals were being farmed, and began to apply a farming model to us human beings, hacking our psychology every step of the way.
depending on how you look at it, either we have to patch the vulnerability (what are our vulnerabilities with respect to territory? hmmm...), or we have to be the ones who design the exploit. that point will be elaborated on as i proceed with this series.
bear with me as a swerve all over the fucking place with my ideation.
land used to be held in common, and there were some excellent reasons for doing so, at least from the perspective of the People.
you may not have noticed, but the global mafia has worked diligently for centuries to erase the commons. this is well detailed in james boyle's 2008 masterpiece the public domain: enclosing the commons of the mind
i propose a return to the commons. a healthy relationship with one another and with the land ought to begin with this principle.
a following installment of hack land will explain what this looks like and... because talk is cheap and i'm sick of progressive academics and thinkers with cushy jobs who advocate for all sorts of revolutionary arrangements but whose salary relies on them staying mostly theoretic.... introduce a first-hand account of how i share over 100 acres of land with multiple households in common.