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Why isnt the frog jumping out of boiling water?

For that to happen you need just two things: 1) somewhere to land where it is not boiling and 2) a trigger.

Today there is nowhere to land where it is not boiling. So triggers do nothing but further desensitise the frog.

People have tried with FOSS in its various strands but its not working.

You cant built a platform for society to land while ignoring how that society works. Principally the money it uses to keep count and the organizational patterns it uses to mobilize resources.

There is nothing predetermimed about the architecture of digital society and it certainly not axiomatic that it must be a dystopia.

Excessive focus on personal freedoms misses the fact that society is not organized around individuals, but rather around coalitions, clans, corporations, collectives etc.

An alternative digital philosophy or platform needs to educate and entice these bigger 'frogs' to act in their own best interest. The rest will be history.




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