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Tearing down the political circus, big government and achieving a pocket of anarchism powered by free, unconstrained trade. Green, sustainable, plentiful energ

by sph 3y ago

Tearing down the political circus, big government and achieving a pocket of anarchism powered by free, unconstrained trade. Green, sustainable, plentiful energy. Turning trash into products. Achieve greater and more harmonious integration of technology and nature. Fostering small decentralised groups, communities, instead of large institutions, companies, projects. Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years. Making technology work for us. Dedicating 40 hours a week for 50 years to full time employment, for the privilege of hiding from the rain, is a level of slavery most people are happy to defend. Declaring the current computing stack as bankrupt and unsustainable and explore novel ways of expanding human intellect through technology. The current code-compile-run model was already ancient in the 1970s. We have reached a local maxima, time to try something different. -- These are the things I care about, and not enough time nor connections to make a significant dent to any of them, just yet. Happy to chat about any of this with other restless souls.

HKH2 3y ago
> Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years. I think that's one of the roles of anthropology.
- sph 3y ago
  OK, perhaps not how they behave, but how best to leverage their potential, while sociological research has mostly been applied to making people work in harmony in large companies or institutions. In fact during my short research on the matter, one source explicitly lamented the fact that pretty much no one has been doing any significant study on small group dynamics since the 70s. All the money is how to make us efficient cogs for the Machine, not how to form small, nimble groups up to of 5 or 6 that are tightly united and motivated in the pursuit of a single goal, often massively more productive than a large system that mostly relies on politics and hierarchy to keep everyone marching in the same direction.
  - HKH2 3y ago
    Well it might sound trite, but sociology is predominantly made up of left wing big government types, so there's no surprise there.
peteradio 3y ago
Where do you live? I'd suggest moving to a small community and seeing what kind of impact you can have! I'm considering a "Free Apple Tree Initiative" where I am to get a shit load of apple tree planted around my small town at what I consider to be very small personal cost to myself.
- sph 3y ago
  Oh man, I would if I had any contacts at all. I live in London, and my deep, deep dream is move to the countryside in a large farm house/art and hacking collective with like minded engineers. Imagine a high tech eco-commune as close as possible to nature and social life. Gigabit fibre and organic garden. A solarpunk, Raspberry PI powered collective of nerds and artists. But I don't know where to start, and don't know where to recruit others for this endeavour.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    in austria there is a popular model where a small group of people (10-20 families) pool their resources to build a house they can all live in with shared ownership. these also can be found elsewhere. i don't know where to start though. i guess it is a combination of picking a target area and finding others interested. also choosing what is important to you. like how close do you want to live to the city. i fear that more isolated locations work better for an already close knit group as opposed to one that just finds itself. an alternative approach might be to buy a piece of land and start building for yourself but with expansion in mind and then invite others to join you for short or long term stays. (like build an area with rooms for guests and if you find some that want to stay expand as needed)
    - sph 3y ago
      > an alternative approach might be to buy a piece of land and start building for yourself Yeah I thought about that... if only land was not so expensive in Europe and UK. I can't afford to do this investment by myself just yet, but that is what I'm working towards anyway.

by sph 3y ago

HKH2 3y ago

> Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years. I think that's one of the roles of anthropology.

sph 3y ago
OK, perhaps not how they behave, but how best to leverage their potential, while sociological research has mostly been applied to making people work in harmony in large companies or institutions. In fact during my short research on the matter, one source explicitly lamented the fact that pretty much no one has been doing any significant study on small group dynamics since the 70s. All the money is how to make us efficient cogs for the Machine, not how to form small, nimble groups up to of 5 or 6 that are tightly united and motivated in the pursuit of a single goal, often massively more productive than a large system that mostly relies on politics and hierarchy to keep everyone marching in the same direction.
- HKH2 3y ago
  Well it might sound trite, but sociology is predominantly made up of left wing big government types, so there's no surprise there.

peteradio 3y ago

Where do you live? I'd suggest moving to a small community and seeing what kind of impact you can have! I'm considering a "Free Apple Tree Initiative" where I am to get a shit load of apple tree planted around my small town at what I consider to be very small personal cost to myself.

sph 3y ago
Oh man, I would if I had any contacts at all. I live in London, and my deep, deep dream is move to the countryside in a large farm house/art and hacking collective with like minded engineers. Imagine a high tech eco-commune as close as possible to nature and social life. Gigabit fibre and organic garden. A solarpunk, Raspberry PI powered collective of nerds and artists. But I don't know where to start, and don't know where to recruit others for this endeavour.
- em-bee 3y ago
  in austria there is a popular model where a small group of people (10-20 families) pool their resources to build a house they can all live in with shared ownership. these also can be found elsewhere. i don't know where to start though. i guess it is a combination of picking a target area and finding others interested. also choosing what is important to you. like how close do you want to live to the city. i fear that more isolated locations work better for an already close knit group as opposed to one that just finds itself. an alternative approach might be to buy a piece of land and start building for yourself but with expansion in mind and then invite others to join you for short or long term stays. (like build an area with rooms for guests and if you find some that want to stay expand as needed)
  - sph 3y ago
    > an alternative approach might be to buy a piece of land and start building for yourself Yeah I thought about that... if only land was not so expensive in Europe and UK. I can't afford to do this investment by myself just yet, but that is what I'm working towards anyway.