I am on the shitter instead of the shower. So, sorry if I babble crap. But imagine something like GitHub but for the purpose of restructuring society.
The scenario you describe is actually represented in a great free book from Cory Doctorow: https://boingboing.net/2009/10/28/makers-my-new-novel.html
Today is the launch of my new novel, Makers, a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet.
Did you just invent wikihow?
No. But I invented the “eternal Tarantino of a spotless toe”
Its mescal served in a nice worn lady shoe with a marachino cherry on top.
I think wiki how was invented by disney.
Owned by microsoft 🤔
That’s what it is now. To much bloat, a stupid subscription model. It runs very slow while the machine runs way to hot.
Applecracy would at least be aesthetically pleasing. Imagine the dope uniforms that everybody would have to wear.
Hugo Boss maybe!
Just replace the skull with the apple and voila.
I’ve got some bad news for you. There is going to he no communist revolution. This isn’t early 20th century Russia
Bad news? We don’t want the revolution of 20th century Russia, we live on 21st century earth! Better yet, lets do away with the christian calendar and do 1st century post capitalism.
I honestly think people will keep trying to sell capitalism to make themselves rich in the same way time shares still get sold when everybody knows they’re scams.
You seem to forget we live in a planet that follows the laws of physics. Capitalism pretends it can bend those laws. But it will not happen
I’m not making a claim to the efficacy of capitalism. Quite the opposite, really. I’m saying con men will try to reinstate it so they can put themselves at the top.
Not with that aditude no.
backward thinking detected…
it does not have to be violent or aligned a with a clown daddy worship ideology ;)
unless you consider denying the parasite profit and engagement “violence”
I told a friend today. “Stop thinking about a solarpunk utopia, start think about a solarpunk revolution”
I’ve thought of this as well.
Git is a great version control and distributed collaboration system.
Just need to use it to manage a constitution, a bill of rights, and a legal framework. Legal code instead of computer code.
Technologically super easy. Convincing a government to switch to a new constitution is hard. We just need an amendment that amends the amendment process into a pull request approval.
We don’t need to convince the government. We just ignore it until it goes away. If it does not dissolve on its own, we just put it in a submarine.
also known as philosophy
Think we need a new channel.
!c/shitterthoughts
I made a !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com a while ago !
Put it in the wiki and we’ll get to it
I often thought it’d be cool to have founding legal documents available in a source control system that was available to everyone.
I’ve always considered open government to be registered opinions in real time. People log an opinion, and if it’s a majority opinion for that jurisdiction or electorate then the government must consider it as a bill to be reviewed.
Honestly? I don’t think that’d work. We already have a problem with not enough people voting once a year as it is.
People dont vote because they dont feel like their views are properly represented. If each individual issue was open to referendum or voting, the only people who would take part in that specific vote are likely people who are well informed and passionate about the issue. I think this would end up being a far better system than having to vote based on nebulous campaign promises that are hardly ever fulfilled, or when they are, your issue is tacked on or bundled with a whole bunch of irrelevant and even harmful legislation.
People don’t vote because why bother.
You vote a representative that says “I will do this” and then they don’t do it. Representatives lie. And you can’t do anything about it within the current political system.
Or even if they don’t lie, nobody agree 100% with a representative. You may agree in some topics but disagree in others. And having to vote for something you don’t want to happen is very frustrating and many people don’t vote because of that.
We need a system where popular vote can make decisions directly.
I’ve been thinking about this concept for quite a long time now.
4 years election cicles had sense in the XVIII century when the fastest way of communicating was letter delivered by horse.
But with internet it makes no sense that old fashioned system.
Forget about elections every 4 years, forget about having an official month of political campaigns that decide the fate of the country for 4 years, and the 4 years of the president doing whatever they want without consequences.
We have the technology to make a direct democracy. Every citizen should be able to vote on any issue or who is their representative at any point of time.
You should read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. I think you’ll like it.
There’s also “A Half-Built Garden” novel where the whole “git as means of direct democracy” is central to the plot. Is gitpunk a genre?
I have been thinking about a social network that would match you with other people who want to engage in activism (protests, writing to reps, starting petitions). I imagine that what often stops people is that they feel like the only ones.
I think it would not work, people covertly sabotage any drift toward a utopia because they do not want it, it is numbingly dull. Beyond wealth or ease of life or sexual freedom what people really want at a deep and profound level is to have something to complain about. The whole of Reddit is just a mechanism for that, as is all social media, as is the internet, the purpose of language and life. People want to gaze over at one section of society and say look at those fucking idiots I am so much better than them. Then they want to tell people how much better they are and have other people agree, and that sort of thing is banned in utopia.
Easy fix: A very violent sport, to ease the peoples hunger for discord. On a volontary basis of course. Preferably something with roller skates and swords.
Also introduce Kevin into the system. People can complain about him. A common enemy brings people together and Kevin is a really big asshohle.
Now everybody’s happy. Except for Kevin of course. But that’s the price you have to pay for utopia.
We could call that sport the Games for Hunger or something like that and the men could all be running. Also we would need populations of Kevins, perhaps decanted for the purpose because what people really miss in a utopia is the bullying. Not full-on to the death school type bullying, we are all too refined now for that and understand everyone is a sensitive frozen water crystal and any slightly offended sensibility is mortal injury to us all, and just very disappointing. No, what we crave is the no chinned, anonymous and slightly sarcastic bullying of a fully mature mind. Laughing at the opinions of others from our hide shacks and downvoting them in wank-gangs until they yield and go outside, in the air - the true defeat of the internetian. I have forgot the point I was trying to make so I’ll stop, but I think the key idea is to reply ‘sorry lady but’ to any post you know is written by a boy adult.
No just one Kevin. If you have more than one to hate on its antikevinism and that’s just racism without the extra steps.
The utopia would spread across the entire globe filling every space humanity chose to live, like pouring proprietary cake mix into a fun shaped cake tin made with universal uniqueness to show your love, so a single Kevin would be overworked. He would need to be scaled up as the revolution proceeded. Even Lenin understood this, its why he had that kid with Yoko.
A Kevin just needs to exist as a funnel for our negative emotions. Just knowing that Kevin exists makes my skin boil. Two Kevin’s would be a reason for war and we don’t do that anymore.
Kevin can sit in chair at an undisclosed location. He gets a VHS of the Buffy the Vampire slayer episode were her mom dies and two bags of dates per day.
I once read on the internet that a dates only diet might be sufficient to nurture you.
Two Kevin’s or even more would be morally complicated.
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Love the brainstorm energy and solution oriented mindset. Few suggestions:
Lets make the game mandatory and nonviolent, except the loser becomes the new kevin and the winner gets blown up with giant lasers.
The kevin system will push people not to be the last one and the laser will discourage people from being at the top.
It would create much more homogenous, and equal society with no class wars because everyone would want to be the part of the “middle class”
Sounds reasonable. I would just call it the class. Because there will be no upper class and the only poor person will be Kevin, he’s such a looser.
Can you elaborate your thoughts? What does “A GitHub for restructuring society” look like?
Billions of completely unrelated developments of niche topics in languages most people don’t understand and then also hundreds of competing solutions to the same problems.
Politics favor the bold, the loud and mostly those who have the money to buy the first two.
Those are not the ones with the knowledge and empathy to, lets say for an example, build a new school (not just the building)
Teachers, architects, children, Gardeners, socialworkers, artists etc. Should be able to share their Knowledge and interweave it, while everybody can watch learn and copy.
Together they create a blueprint of the project. Now everybody can come and do the math on it. Or even prototype the school.
Important is the most questionnaire:
Is it the most oecologic solution
The most fair
The most accessible
The most qualitative
The most fun
You can put up existing laws and systems and watch the world tinker with it.
The hard thing is how do you officiate a project or law. But I think something like a monthly vote. you watch the short disclaimer people made aside their changes press yes no or idc.
Oh by the way I do not really know how GitHub works. Never used it.
With the hyphen, right? Please say with the hyphen.
