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The failure of Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment and Network States. Neofeudalism doesn't work.
by tomrod 2y ago
The failure of Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment and Network States.
Neofeudalism doesn't work.
- gunian 2y agowhat does neofeudal mean in this context?
- pram 2y agoIt's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoIs it all that different than DNS, in that top level domains are owned by a certain 'gentry' and everyone else pays rent? You don't have to pay for namespace in urbit btw only if you want a permanent handle (and when you buy a planet or whatever its yours, you don't pay monthly for it, but yes you buy it from someone who was granted ownership by king curtis)
- pram 2y agoCertainly not different in practice, and it’s also bad. Yet ARPANET wasn’t originally designed to have a bunch of parasitic registrars collecting rent, so thats something worth considering.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIt’s nothing new. Just monarchy with peasants and slaves.
- binary132 2y agoOddly enough, it seems that every time a self-selecting population of lunatics and sociopaths attempts to bootstrap a New Society, it proves their theoretical framework wrong. How curious… well, maybe next time!