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@ Alexander Lopatin
2025-05-18 19:47:39
“...technology is not the hard problem, and will not solve the hard problem; use it wisely and well, but remember that networks ultimately always succeed or not on relations between people (i.e., trust and normativity). This is a common error, especially given the rise of Web3 and its attempt to create so-called "trustless networks". These networks aren't trustless in anything other than a narrow and technical sense. Even Bitcoin and its solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem is only trustless at a single layer and tiny fraction of the full ontic scope of what makes the network function. There is still pervasive normativity throughout the full network that is Bitcoin itself, from the internet pipelines to the cold storage hardware, from the market exchanges to the sociopolitical environment that allows for the network.”
“To be sure, over the coming decades the world will be engaging in a massive, mostly-unaware assimilation of verticality project as it seeks to counter the flattening of postmodernism, high liberalism, and technological-driven anarchism, which it will do by trying to restore realist growth hierarchies socially, politically and educationally. It is my view that new verticalities can either become oppressive, as arguably are underway with today's reactionary neo-Feudalism, or emancipatory, aided by an integrative worldview that has a richly-differentiated ontology, axiology, and praxis dedicated to emancipatory individual development and social evolution.”
“As I read the news headlines every day, the strange feeling that keeps recurring is that none of it is news to me. So much pain, so much damage from narrow worldviews in power, so much chaos ... the only thing that represents any truly genuine novelty, is what humans with enough meta-reflexivity to still have total freedom of action will do next.”
Curious concentrated chunk of wisdom on issues and ideas that go way beyond challenges many of us are focused here. Not that I strongly agree on every single statement but many things resonate.
https://instituteofappliedmetatheory.org/a-sociology-of-big-pictures/
#leadership #metacrisis #metamodernism