Short cut the middlemen, and centralize it already!

Decentralization for decentralization sake is doom.

Decentralized money was the initial point. separate the power and violence of capital wealth, from unjust athoritirs.

As long as value can flow from entity to entity without overreaching middlemen, I’ll have a big centralized castle with a moat and guns totally be the custodian of my wealth, while my soft meat sack which holds a semi-valuable sentient mind, takes meanders through dangerous travels and fun hijinx)

but weve reached a point where i wouldnt trust in "trustlessness"... i want someone verifying claims and practices and experiments, etc...

you dont want the "authority of internetlandia", to degree yee banned, do yee??

well they can and they did and theres nothing you can do about it; but you did break the community guidelines and rules you agreed to when you signed up, sooooo... theres that...

yeah; i dont feel bad when you get ban cancelled, brah!

if u have a problem, ask the moderators yo.

Monotheism is the epitope of centralized authority, and all surviving religions have tended towards monotheistic-style-values in some way or another.

(Monotheistic-style-value: a value consistent with people believing in a single divine authority responsible for all, e.g. “good or bad, same thing from different being perspectives; maybe god thought it was for some greater good?”, same god)

While its cool to have 100 blindmens perspective on what they think theyre doing as they fondle an elephant or whatever the metaphor is, sometimes you just want one voice to quickly say; "elephant behind u's about to shit, step left now, unless u wanna get covered in it".

for example...

I don’t want decentralized knowledge libraries; I want ones that are well organized and curated by a mass of librarians and librarians in training all working together concertedly on centralizing a collection and index of knowledge and texts. If that can be done well in a decentralized fashion… show me.

napster and bearshare were cool, but my college dorms DC++ network of about 30 top seeding sharers (with likely a few thousand leechers), always had everything music or film-wise you could want that day, any day.

Even Wikimedia (wikipedias parents, and big pappas) has its eschelons of custodians and librarians and bots which fix graffiti and fake/joke edits to pedia entries.

When will the world decide to centralize into one government; real democracy can only exist when we’re all “free”.

Some new world order religion isn’t going to work… moms and pops just want a good world for their kids, and good opportunities, that they didn’t get to have, or that they want to let ones they help shepherd, experience.

Isn’t everything ruled by middlemen in someway? How would “cutting out the middleman” work in the process of milk turning to cheese….

That is to say; how do you cut out the middleman of time in proper winemaking technique.

processes have steps, and steps are middlemen between A and B.

Your daily commute? A middle man between you and your work.

Your mattress? A middle man between you and the floor, cushioning the harshness of hard floors for sleep for you, so long as you keep it cleanish, and … let’s not get into box springs and bed frames and lattice and frameworks and foundations and… and.. and..

It’s turtles all the way down again…

The goal is to build a sustainable network of middlemen, where the time in an time out for the money, is slow enough that… all the wheels and cogs get their share of the grease…

Are you not but cog?

in reverse 🔄 |goc|

We each inhabit our space on this planet (or for some in space for a time, or *soon, maybe lifetimes), and each step we take, each shout we make, has that little ripple effect through our community and the ones it touches.

Take care with your cohérites and coggeries, mind the gaps and don’t be getting the grease all the time… it’s a pain in the ass to get the stench and slime of it off when you’ve gotten too much…

And when you’ve gotten too little, there’s 1000 other little cogs that can be chiseled into whatever need be, so never you mind you cogs who’ve gotten too little… (sarcasm... Bot)