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Well it's fairly easy. Stop people consuming. Consuming is the oil that keeps the cogs turning. Choosing where to consume doesn't change a thing. It just shifts
by d0 13y ago
Well it's fairly easy. Stop people consuming. Consuming is the oil that keeps the cogs turning. Choosing where to consume doesn't change a thing. It just shifts the power balance from one set of corporations to another. Each of those has political connections.
Move to black markets, move to stand-alone non-country backed currencies and swap things and services. Prevent consumption by making it impossible to do so by taking out the mediums for cash flow i.e. mobile networks, inter-bank transfer systems and large single points of failure like payment companies. Blockade roads and sabotage rail network signalling systems, fuel supplies etc.
When people are unable to consume and find eating at risk and can no longer move using sanctioned paths, the power balance will shift to a necessity based economy, at which point the representatives, government and economic systems which allow this to happen will collapse.
Nothing is going to change until everyone is in the same boat.
- wolf550e 13y agoWelcome to the terrorist watchlist.
- d0 13y agoYes probably. Someone has to say it though and it's only an adaptation of the motivation and procedure of declaring war. It's exactly the same conversation people have before they invade a country so to be taken up on this would be hypocritical. I have no intention of acting or inciting myself, as I'm quite comfortable, physically broken, a coward. Plus I rather would like to play with my new computer before the world falls down around me :)
- rhizome 13y agoWhen people are unable to consume and find eating at risk and can no longer move using sanctioned paths, the power balance will shift to a necessity based economy... Will it? What are some examples from history of this occurring?
- cinquemb 13y ago>[...]etc. Interestingly enough on the subject of networks and systems, many large commercial airplanes (air commerce and transportation are how much of the global economy?) are using a "totally unencrypted and unauthenticated" protocol [0][1] that can be used to transmit and inject packets (i.e spoof air planes) in the sky and wreak havoc on already worn thin aviation systems and controllers… available to anyone for under $50 and probably for free with some recycled gear lying around and ones local library… which should be fully implemented by 2020. Also on the subject on making it real for the people, social networks have huge information leakages that people are only ok with until it ends up on a site that they never consented to or signed up for. Exploiting the fact that social networks and search engines can extract the vain behaviors of people, one or companies can easily exploit such phenomenon (for fun or for profit because corporations can have ability to absolve individuals of personal liability by exchanging capital gained from such endeavors to the State) to cause discomfort to such audiences that would not care or be aware of such things that are increasingly discussed on HN, thus opening up the discomfort surface for other issues to seep through. All this to say, the means for The People (whomever and wherever they may be) to exhibit such control or sovereignty over themselves is already here (and always has, or so can be argued) if one looks around for just a little bit, so the time probably hasn't come but history suggests (especially in times of economic turmoil) that such times are always around the corner. But history also suggests that, in the aftermath of such things, they won't appear quite the same as they were looked upon before. [0] http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/28/defcon-20-renderman-on-ads-b-aero-radio/ http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/28/defcon-20-renderma... [1] http://youtu.be/HS38q3YXsY4?t=12m48s http://youtu.be/HS38q3YXsY4?t=12m48s