Consensual Cooperation

Something thats perplexed me for a while is why the whole world seems to rotate around gov even when there doesn’t appear to be direct force being used. I talk about some possibilities of the incentive structure around large company’s

Centralized science coupled with politics has told us that changing metrics have simple good or bad outcomes. With a system as complex as the biosphere this couldn’t be further from the truth

I do. Not to the point where its a high priority in my life to preserve its health. But enough that id Exert some effort to keep it from collapsing. Many people act as if caring about the biosphere is a fundamental and universal value. This is simply not true. We dont need the biosphere, we dont have to care about the biosphere, we have transcended the biosphere and can now choose to keep it around for our own pleasure or not.

We've been sucked into a stick sweet whirlpool of complacency, helplessness, Resignation and entitlement called indefinite optimism. Where we assume everything will continue to progress with no effort on our end. even that it's impossible for individuals to make things better and that it's all up to some magical force of life behind the scenes. You are that force, you are what will concretely shape the world for better or worse. While The incentives of consensual cooperation may light the way they dont walk down it.

Progress doesn’t happen magically or for certain. We've been lulled into a sense of indefinite complacency and helplessness where we think we have little ability or need to build the world we want to life in.

The real root of value flow and subsequent pricing is what the people participating in said market value

We can either cooperate our way to prosperity or we cant. Being shackled by another human with the exact same flaws couldnt solve any problems individuals have

Government has always used fear of the external to induce feelings of Individual hopelessness so that we look to centralized violence to solve our problems. Pulling our attention away from our political systems grievances against us and onto their created problem of the day. This has always been a tactic to hold onto power when our support for them is shaking. But this time it's different, they know the internet is shaking there grip permanently so they will only clamp down tighter. The light at the end of the tunnel isn't coming, it will be a state of emergency forever and the unbearable weight of “necessary” restrictions until we fully break their chains.

More people are voting this year than ever and that terrifies me. This means that more and more people are looking to monopolized violence to solve their problems (almost all created by the thing they look too). Instead of looking to creation through Consensual cooperation to peacefully build their way out of these problems and make the state functionally obsolete.

Working for someone is a voluntary exchange of value. So no matter what time or for how much it happens it's benefiting both parties. Otherwise they wouldn't engage in it. Governments and unions use violence to prevent us from engaging in this essential transaction when we choose. This greatly decreases our efficiency and therefore wages and overall prosperity. As well as artificially commoditizing our hours rather than value created making us less creative while wasting more of our time. We can create value when we want how we want. We don't need violence to get days off.

There's constantly parallels being drawn between the evolutionary forces that drove the progression of primitive life to the market forces that drive the progression of individual prosperity. And while there are some similarities the differences are far more stark.

Patents are a ticket to use government violence to prevent others from creating value with their property. Literally restricting them from using what they own in certain forms. An idea for value creation is a very small part of creating value. Building and managing the systems necessary to do so is the majority of the difficulty. Therefore patents actually incentivise people to do the easy part of value creation then execute horribly on the difficult part as there's no competition. Holding us all back from getting the best products/services possible.

Our individual value scales determine everything about what is created, how it's created and how that affects the biosphere. The gov has implanted this idea that the individual is helpless to direct production and run away uncontrollable companies will destroy our environment to make a buck. So the only solution is to give the gov more power to use unilateral violence to prevent companies from doing so, This is totally unfounded. Companies only make what you buy. If you want something made with processes that are more expensive but less damaging to the biosphere you can do so. We have total control over production. If we choose to protect primitive life at some cost to the rest of our value scales we can do so. If we choose to destroy all primitive life to make ours better well good, that's what we wanted. There's no objective good or bad just what we want. And as we’re the most advanced form of life we have this option by default.

The most Versatile weapon the state welds is using there Monopoly on violence to force us into a situation out of our control (only because they’ve striped us control) to cause panic and helplessness. Demanding more control as we obviously cant fix a problem that we didnt cause thats being violently enforced. A textbook example of this being governments causing economic destruction with the lockdown then touting that freedom and self interest caused it and we need to have less control over our money as we supposedly cant act in our own best interests. The other day i had a terrifying thought, if the state starts to feel there support failing(happening rn) they could Collaborate to start a nuclear war. Allowing them to both completely scramble any movements against them by wiping the board to square one and have an excuse to Seize total control. Through inducing a state of fever pitch panic and helplessness. “Justifying” a “Temporary” abolition of private property and all rights. As is already spelled out in Military documents. A truly terrifying thought but as the lengths of our current lockdown insanity has shown very possible. We must get these weapons of large scale destruction out of the hands of the most murderous and powerful systems as soon as possible.

The institutionalization of science has pushed a coercive consensus onto our agreed upon information. Engraving obviously incorrect ideas into the foundations of entire scientific frameworks. Entangling progress in a web of frozen nonsense.

Theres a prolifically propagandized notion that there is some sort of common good beyond the individual. As if groups had there own set of value scales. In this episode i talk about how this idea has infected economics with the notion of overall economic efficiency. There is no meaning of increasing prosperity beyond individual value scales.

From a single cell to massive value creating systems constituting of 1000’s of already massively complex humans Hierarchies are ingrained in everything. An essential structure for any sort of complex organic functioning they are one of the things that defines life. Many anarchists believe hierarchies are bad and we should use force to dismember them. But as long as their consensual they are not only fine but the very source of all creation. Violent Hierarchies are horrible, the problem lies in the violence not the Hierarchies

Bitcoin cannot scale to be a large player in the global economy. This is because it grants control over the coin based upon computing power and as it gets more valuable the incentive to control it will drive the necessary mining power to keep it safe through the roof. Resulting in a downward pressure that deincentivizes growth with ever increasing weight. As no one is going to want to spend 51% of the worlds energy on controlling a blockchain.

Many systems thinkers have a view that systems need to be totally understood and controlled to be directed and as this is clearly light years away from being possible with any system they result to axioms of hopelessness. They need to approach systems from the mix of chaos/order/time that is organics. Exploring how to create, grow, and morph systems like the living entity’s they are.

Algorithms determine the vast majority of how informative flows on the internet. All of the large directors of information flow have obviously terrible algorithms that need to be drastically improved. As information dictates literally everything about how we construct our experience and navigate the world we need to have an understanding of and control over what determines the information we get fed.

The only legitimate argument against fully peaceful societies is that they simply haven’t happened on a large scale yet. I proposed that mabye part of the reason is that through social evolution the early authority figures gave subservient people a survival advantage as they have a strong incentive to stay in power and would give advantage to those that follow fully. driving us further into being chained by violent power structures and subsequently genetically shaped by them. Until being owned by kings seems as human as opposable thumbs.

Government has turned family, the structure meant to guide and support you in your earily development, into a violent relationship of ownership. Instilling helplessness, total obedience, and normalizing us to the shackles of oppression.

I talk about how statist use the fear of the unknown to perpetuate current violence. The incentives that naturally drive humans toward consensual cooperation over violence. And why I trust organic freedom to fill the few gaps left by the void of gov violence when it collapses.

When it comes to signaling value created, weighted actions mean far more than weightless opinions as they actually cost something to state. This is why 99% of economic decisions are based on what people do rather than say. Why is most of our information sorting based on weightless opinions then? I go into how we can change this.

Without some natural barrier allowing two populations of a single species to naturally diverge it would seem that the constant remixing of genes through sex in a population wouldn’t allow for one species to develop into two. I propose some ideas on how this could happen through sexual selection in this episode.

The collection and interpretation of information(science) has been partitioned from the rest of the consensual cooperation resulting in a breakdown of its incentive structure and a arresting of its value creation. Without science we are blind, and putting our eyes in the hands of coercive authority has left us with non to navigate the world with. We need to take back science if we ever want to achieve our personal goals.

Many statists have been drawn to the ideas of liberty and anti authoritarianism in light of the constant abuses of the state. There right to hold up these ideals but wrong to think that they can coexist with a non voluntary state that engages in wealth confiscation. In this episode I go into why wealth confiscation necessitates authoritarianism.

Majority rule. Held up by most as the ideal form of decision making and governance. But year after year we see poor management and the majority of people being dissatisfied with its results. In this episode I go into why majority rule is so ineffective and how it actively violates the rights of the Individual.

There are many paths to a voluntary society, and in this episode, I go into one of my favorites, Grey markets. A secure digital market place safe from the oversite of the state. Where alternative to the currently monopolized functions of the state can be developed without having to directly challenge it. Showing people the superiority of volunteerism while undermining the necessity and validity of the state.  

The situation in Hong is quite complex with many different instances of force being used by the police and protesters. In this episode, I go into the major categories of such force use and which ones are justified. As well as how this use of force legitimizes or delegitimizes the movement. 

In our first episode, we talk about the incredible amount of influence and often direct control that the state has on media,  even in countries with a supposedly free press. How this leads to major gaps in the information people are served, particularly around the recent surge of anti-authoritarian protest movements. And finally how we plan to fill that gap by talking to people deep in these movements so we can bring you the events and developments so blatantly ignored by the vast majority of media.