Fighting The Cancer Of Society \ stacker news ~culture

2204 sats \ 34 comments \ @TomK 21 Jan culture

The state is the cancer of society, which radiates, metastasizes and continues to grow at the expense of the healthy parts of society. The greatest trick of this cancer is to convince the energy source that is being sucked in that this destructive process is for its own good.

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705 sats \ 9 replies \ @Nuttall 21 Jan

The only way to fight the state is to accept responsibility for your own actions and also to understand that there is no state. It's paradox but practical in that the state is a temporary condition where noble intentions degenerate into self serving conclusions.

Furthermore everyone else whether he or she believes it or not it's responsible for this life. There are no groups but there certainly are conspiracies (breathing together - organized crime, graft, volunteerism and sheep). Unless there is a grand spiritual movement that is decentralized there will always be a large number of those who are mesmerized by the state actors.

132 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Jan

This is why building parallel institutions is so valuable. We don't need to convince everyone of our views, if we can give people ways to live around the state rather than under it.

432 sats \ 3 replies \ @shado_op 22 Jan

I think this is the key. History is full of examples of people "doing it for themselves", not relying on the State. Eg in europe, many of the large financial services insurers etc started as mutuals, ie self help, by local communities. They're a long way from that now (!), but I think rediscovering our history is helpful to show it can be done...

458 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 22 Jan

We are all collaborators. It's the choice of collaboration that increases the reward of volunteering and self responsibility. Like if you are a governor worker, a military guy and even an executioner, you will wake up one day and realize your work is meaningful to the people but not to the government. Then you put down your sword for them and pick it up for you.

Better to do work for people who also feel the same.

77 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 22 Jan

examples of people "doing it for themselves"

Made me think of how so much of the Netherlands was literally under the ocean until some people realized it could be homesteaded because it wasn't locked into any feudal arrangement.

53 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 22 Jan

We are grateful for the giants before us.

63 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

Building of independent communities if I get You right? With BTC as kind if a base layer...

35 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 21 Jan

There are lots of different examples, but something like that. It will look different depending on the place, since the state overreaches will be different.

In the US there are a bunch of non-bitcoin examples, like independent media or medical practices that don't participate in the government medical programs.

Bitcoin and nostr are definitely powerful forces to build on for these projects.

525 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 21 Jan

Yes, there are quite a few people who work in and out of the "system". The trap is the "in" part that we all have to do. Any "in" legitimizes the state and yet there is always some conduit of touch. This is where human relationships become important. All the top state actors constantly work around the state by using the state.

It's the devil you know.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

Thanks for Your thoughts. Interesting

768 sats \ 12 replies \ @purpurato 21 Jan

No one I know around me can understand the problem with the state intervention in health, education, culture etc. Most of us have received some kind of "aid" from a state institution, so I believe there is a bias for not biting the hand that feeds you .

We're really far from reducing the role of the state in our daily lives, most people have been fully propagandized into believing that we need ever more intervention and if there are problems with the state of affairs it's because there isn't enough intervention!

38 sats \ 10 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

This socialist system ''educated''people to behave and feel like little pets or slaves. Milei must be a shock for many as the collision with reality terribly hurts.

36 sats \ 9 replies \ @wingalt 21 Jan

True that socialist schools are the way to indoctrinate into statism. I wish Milei was on people's mind in the West but I am not convinced he is yet, still a long way to go for libertarian ideas to go mainstream. Where I live people are so in awe for countries giving citizen one-year maternity leave, not realizing that it can only be done by taking 80-90% on people's productivity (i.e., conservative % based on tax rates major countries in the EU)

51 sats \ 4 replies \ @justanumber 21 Jan

This is why I despair so much. I speak about the importance of not giving our children over to government schools to be indoctrinated by the state but even folk who profess to be all-in for freedom and talk about reducing the control the state has over us are resistant. What could be less freedom-minded than handing your kids over to strangers to be programmed? Talking about home education or homeschooling triggers and angers a lot of people and I don't know why. I wonder if they're just having a little adult tantrum because deep down it's not something they want to do or are willing to take responsibility of.

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 21 Jan

No need to despair. If you look at history we are not alone. I have children, grandchildren and no one is doing it all perfect and right. The real peace is inside and the outside is a reflection so it means that we start where we are and not where we want to be. The journey is the destination. All humans act regardless of inaction or action. Same time spent and the same energy expended or wasted.

The lesson everyone will learn is that we are responsible for our actions. Our actions produce results. The results are our ownership. No one can steal your action. This is why Karma (literally work) is so important to serious teachers of spirit and appropriated by scammers who define it as a mystical concept.

Start looking at the meaning of all words we have. Look at the roots. Look at the symbols. The truth is out there and it is resonating inside. Government means mind control. Govern (Gubern < Kubern = steer) and (Ment < mental < mentis = mind). Who's controlling my mind? Me or someone else?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

I just try to think of a home schooling debate here in Europe. They would look at You like You were a naked drunk lunatic

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @justanumber 21 Jan

Europe is terrible for that. The other European countries are closely watching what happens in the UK, as that's probably the most free place in Europe to homeschool at the moment. But the UK is not without constant attacks. I know many Europeans who are moving away from the less free places, such as Sweden and Germany, where it is outright illegal. I'm all for that. Don't stay where you are treated badly.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 21 Jan

Also some are travelling around and worldschooling, so they go to other European countries for a few months at time, blend in with the tourists and because they are not residents they are left alone.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Nuttall 21 Jan

All leaders are wrong.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

Even Klaus, the King of Bugs?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Nuttall 21 Jan

The bugs don't even like him.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

Lol

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Jan

We're really far from reducing the role of the state in our daily lives

This is true on paper, but the parallel economy being built right now will reduce the state's role in our daily lives.

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @BlokchainB 21 Jan

The state in its current state is in a rot but it’s not all evil. Look at the FAA and the actions they took when safety issues showed up with 747 Max. And the investigations that happen after each crash.

While most of the government can be reduced by 60% to 70% to drain the admin and unproductive class. It still can serve a purpose to serve the people

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @clr 21 Jan

The 737 Max problem, as someone explained very well on Twitter:

Boeing wanted to create an alternative to the A320neo, but it couldn't be a new model, because that means that the pilots must receive long training and simulator sessions before they are FAA certified to fly a new plane model.
So Boeing decided to improve the 737 rather than design a new plane from scratch.
They chose a new engine with a higher bypass ratio for higher fuel efficiency, but the new engine has a bigger diameter than the older one. The 737 has a low landing gear, so the new engine would be too close to the ground.
The solution was to move the engine forward in front of the wing so that it could be higher.
This changed the flying behavior of the plane. Maybe it moved the gravity center of the plane and/or it increased the "wing" surface because the engine now was forward rather than below the wing. Bottom line, the 737 Max has a tendency to tilt upwards and it could get too vertical under certain circumstances.
Remember, Boeing had promised to the airlines a 737 variant, not a new plane. So the new plane needed to have the same behavior as the previous 737.
This is where the MCAS comes in. To avoid pilot recertification, the 737 Max had to "feel" like the previous 737 to the pilots. So they decided to compensate for the tilting upwards by using the elevator in the tail to counteract. This is done automatically by the plane without telling the pilots. The input sensor is the angle of attack sensor. Boeing chose to use only one sensor instead of building in redundancy. The training materials for the pilots only mentioned this whole new system in passing, so less experienced pilots wouldn't probably be fully aware of what had changed.

Boeing prioritized short term profits before long term sustainability. This can be at least in part be traced back to fiat/short term economy. The state, in short.
The FAA allowed and approved that design and that whole chain of fuckery.
Only after hundreds of people died they had to ground the planes because the problems couldn't be hidden anymore.

So no, the FAA is no hero in this story. They are the villains, together with Boeing.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @clr 22 Jan

Here is a source with a very detailed explanation: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 22 Jan

Cool. Very interesting. Thank You

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 22 Jan

Villains? Where is the malicious intent? They tried to innovate on a design and it failed. Things like this happen all the time. Even Satoshi had an inflation bug in the bitcoin protocol.

Blaming the state for Boeing’s design choices is a stretch. Aviation is a tough business with very low profit margin. But yet they brought the cost down to fly to where your normal middle class family can take 2 to 3 flights a year. The death rate for flying in a Boeing plane is near negligible.

Overall regulation is in place to protect people. Just like anything in life we have good regulation and bad regulation and overall enforcement of those regulations. Mind you if you hate it nothing is stopping you from flying with countries with lackluster regulations.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 22 Jan

I am not sure if you have read this post: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

It's long but well worth reading. It answers all your questions.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

But the problem is its inherent tendency to absorb ressources again. Faster and faster. You can't limit administration activities as they serve as a forefront body of the political parasitic caste.

46 sats \ 1 reply \ @BountifulB 22 Jan

It's the Elites robbing the productive middle class and using the spoils to buy votes from poor / destitute people to stay in power. There currently aren't enough poor people for this grift to be sustainable so Western governments are importing them.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 22 Jan

This is the last chapter of ''democracy'' A. de Tocqueville foresaw 150 years ago.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @phatom 21 Jan

So basically without the State, we will have a cancer free society

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Jan

We'll find something worse to replace it.