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The impostor syndrome and such are crazy though, when working remotely from my dust and cockroaches box.

When talking about people with ASD that's called unmasking and is one of the main goals of therapy.

Always has been

Funny. I've always been proud of understanding things deeper than people around me (or trying).

But at the same time those people around would treat as something miserable the fact that I don't even try to remember dates, numbers, names, other specific facts not necessary for understanding the whole architecture. I'm fine with that context, but it's obvious.

Yeah, that and also you can look at how nation-states behave.

Everything in life is modular, they are already corporations.

Like you have some kind of LEGO blocks, one thing made of them is called a corporation, another such thing is called a nation-state. If you attach blocks to the former to make it same as the latter, it'll behave the same too.

This is also the reason I'm skeptical of any liberal ideas of the "let's vote in the party that will be good , nice and make laws for the state to be always good , nice". If the state is made of the same blocks and you've just glued a paper with some letters on it on the outside - obviously nothing will change in that regard.

EDIT: Also notice how Trump, Vance and others do not behave as if they've suddenly won everything and are going to institute fascism right now and kill all they don't like. That's cause they understand very well that they've only been voted in. It is an event in their favor, but the structure is not going anywhere. They'll just make it a bit closer to what they want. A bit. Maybe. Anyway, the structure itself is much more complex, nameless and I don't know shit about it.

I'd rather give us all the right to arm ourselves with anything we want and carefully consider what the state and the corporations and such are offering us to do, not obey with our heads down under the threat of violence. Sadly that kind of bright future requires a process I can't fathom. Probably an evolutionary, not revolutionary one. And of course not a reformatory one, that's the stupidest variant possible yet so many people believe in it.

This is also called distributism in Catholic political ideologies, and before I'm labeled as fascist, the whole point of distributism is about humans being weak and flawed and power having to be distributed. It's Christian, but the opposite of fascist (which would be that humans are weak and flawed and thus only strength and life at the moment matter). Traditionalism\progressism and such are literally not the subject of that ideology. Just how to avoid power of one person over another as much as possible, considering the Christian postulate that humans are flawed and weak and no human can be entrusted power (I mean, at the same time they have a pretty hierarchical structure since Pentarchy and before, but that's been contested since then and the hierarchy has failed to ever make all its opponents heretics).

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My (night school) education, personally, improved quite a lot with COVID. Yep, it was disrupted. But instead of spending two hours in transport I'd be at my desk. Instead of just sitting in a boring depressing auditory with my ADHD, ASD and possibly PTSD, I was at my desk with tea and my laptop and maybe some food and my dog nearby.

If we are hopeful, that's what RFK should go after in fact. Homeopathy.

But, judging from where he starts, skoleotherapy, as in worm treatment, is the new fashion for you.

I wanna play Plague Inc again.

Except this cult doesn’t even have fun drug fueled orgies.

Drugs may be bad for one's health, but orgies are good. So yes please. I'll be the cult leader with prima noctae right.

Nah. The US hasn’t been able to force Russia to stop their invasion of Ukraine, nor stop them from playing fuck-fuck games all over the rest of the world. And China is almost certainly stronger than Russia is. They both joined the internet because they wanted to, not because they were forced.

I'm begging your pardon, but when the Internet came to Russia, US was sending humanitarian aid there. Literally giving out chicken legs in Moscow.

Also differences in power are not two discrete states. A parent can't force their child to marry a specific person, but they can force them to live in a certain area, using, say, financial help as leverage.

Oh, they’ll just choose to cooperate and act like a single central authority? Without a preexisting central authority forcing them to? 🤔

So? They'll form a cluster.

One can say top-level Soviet bureaucrats were not yes-men to the general secretary either. They made decisions collegially.

ARPANET was created by the US, but no one forced the Russians or the Chinese to adopt the IP protocol on their computers and connect to their neighbors.

Also no one forced people to adapt railway gauge or PSTN standards.

This is important because a super common anti-anarchist talking point is that people won’t cooperate (at least not at scale) unless an overarching authority forces them to. The existence of the internet demolishes that argument. It would be fundamentally impossible if that talking point were true.

I can't agree. It's the lower authorities submitting to the higher authority. That happens. A small group of authorities is close to one. In fact none are monolithic.