Blockchains are fascist! It's true, and yet one more reason the deeply thoughtful people at @holochain deserve attention and resources.
via @autotrnslucencehttps://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/fluid-mode-via-holochain-putting-theory-into-practice/amp/?__twitter_impression=true …
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Interesting article. One response I had was that it might be useful to distinguish between Stage 3 & Stage 4 authoritarianism. What is the difference?
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Hmm. I'm not as familiar with stage 3 societies (as I obviously didn't grow up in one); my first guess would be stage 3 would focus on family ties, charismatic leaders - so maybe feudalism could be authoritarian? I'm guess most of the power would come from violence and charisma.
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Replying to @autotrnslucence @VincentHorn and
Stage 4, the 'legitimizing' power would come from some belief system, which gets its power from reason and broad adoption. There's an interesting question of whether a religious authoritarian regime would be more 3 or 4...
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and I guess it would depend on where the power came from, and how important values and beliefs were as opposed to relationships.
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