Hear me out: social networks are where people invest. We are investing our ATTENTION via social networks. And social networks are both democratic and meritocratic - everyone has a say, and the best ideas rise to the top. Memes become viral through the operation of free-market principles - there is a high demand for good content and thus the supply of good content propagates virally.
What is this 'good content'? Good content comes in two categories: The truth, and what makes people happy. The market is driven by people's desire to be happy. And even though the corporation/state is heavily invested in manipulating people into believing that more new shoes, more new clothes, more new cars, more new tvs, more movies, more new wars, more new fears, and more new weapons to defeat more new enemies will give us happiness, it is a very structurally unsound proposition requiring an exorbitant level of manipulation. This is enormously cost prohibitive, and self-defeating in the long run. And all that stuff didn't make us happy.
In other words, the corporation/state is providing us with 'bad content' and telling us its 'good content', while at the same time doing everything it can to prevent authentic 'good content' from going viral - and yet good content is seeping into the public domain, where every attempt is made censor it.
And the censorship isn't working, just as free market economics predicts. Where there is a demand, supply will inevitably arise. We want to be entertained, and we want the truth too, even if it sucks. As it becomes more and more obvious to everyone that government is ultimately what stands in the way of real peace and prosperity, because Empire requires slaves and war, we will no longer look to Empire to give us the peace and prosperity we so deeply desire and instead we will create it ourselves, using the internet, without Empire's consent or approval. Economic prosperity is a natural consequence of a healthy and vibrant ecology, while the current paradigm is about as appealing as following a herd of lemmings off a cliff into lava. Government has lost a critical mass of support, as the Deep State is unelected and unrepresentative. In our hearts we have declared Independence, with precedent. And so we turn to our ecologies for survival, as we always have-
Make gardening the centerpiece of public education. That's sustainability.
And the censorship isn't working, just as free market economics predicts. Where there is a demand, supply will inevitably arise. We want to be entertained, and we want the truth too, even if it sucks. As it becomes more and more obvious to everyone that government is ultimately what stands in the way of real peace and prosperity, because Empire requires slaves and war, we will no longer look to Empire to give us the peace and prosperity we so deeply desire and instead we will create it ourselves, using the internet, without Empire's consent or approval. Economic prosperity is a natural consequence of a healthy and vibrant ecology, while the current paradigm is about as appealing as following a herd of lemmings off a cliff into lava. Government has lost a critical mass of support, as the Deep State is unelected and unrepresentative. In our hearts we have declared Independence, with precedent. And so we turn to our ecologies for survival, as we always have-
Make gardening the centerpiece of public education. That's sustainability.
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