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> If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but... Can someone explain me how is "babblings about martians" or lizard men crazier than believi

by aikah 11y ago

> If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but... Can someone explain me how is "babblings about martians" or lizard men crazier than believing in Shiva, Jehova or any other religion ? Very few dare consider people who believe in a guy who talked to an "angel" or another one who multiplied fishes and came back to life after death crazies ... > Do you remember that before Snowden, the whole NSA thing was a tinfoil-hat worthy idea? And what the NSA does goes beyond what moderately tinfoily people thought. What is fascinating is that it didn't really change anything when it comes to relationship between the government and the people. And a lot of people actually consider Snowden a traitor, when the traitors are those who actually spy on the people and covered it up. No, it's about authority, some believe the authority never lies and is here to protect them so they have a duty of obedience toward that authority and others who know the authority is only here to protect itself and its power, by any means, at the expense of the people if necessary.

faceyspacey 11y ago
Yet there are others with deep wisdom of the nature of authority--that when it gets to a certain size (especially where there is no larger authority to check it), there is always risk for it becoming self-serving. It's the nature of the beast and therefore accept. Accordingly the only solution is decentralization. It's the difference between bundled and unbundled software. The rising tides of both play their part in a larger a picture, a larger set of lessons which ultimately--I believe--leave with unbundling/decentralization being the final answer. The flip side of the coin, of this lesson, is u need the times of bundling and centralization to learn how to do decentralization properly. In so looking at the broader picture, can we say bundling and centralization of power is a bad thing?

by aikah 11y ago

faceyspacey 11y ago

Yet there are others with deep wisdom of the nature of authority--that when it gets to a certain size (especially where there is no larger authority to check it), there is always risk for it becoming self-serving. It's the nature of the beast and therefore accept. Accordingly the only solution is decentralization. It's the difference between bundled and unbundled software. The rising tides of both play their part in a larger a picture, a larger set of lessons which ultimately--I believe--leave with unbundling/decentralization being the final answer. The flip side of the coin, of this lesson, is u need the times of bundling and centralization to learn how to do decentralization properly. In so looking at the broader picture, can we say bundling and centralization of power is a bad thing?