Have you read Yasuhiko Genku Kimura's Alignment Beyond Agreement? Or do you subscribe to Pieter de Beer? There is coordination beyond fractured initiatives, and it is emerging xoxo
Echoing this concern. In a normal world, this blueprint might work….but we share the country with a cult. They are not grounded in reality. They have been groomed to be blood thirsty. There is no future of human rights or democracy without addressing the pipeline of fascist foot soldiers being manufactured at scale by the right wing.
Decentralized charm initiatives aren’t going to win that war.
Totally with you on the blueprint.
The diagnosis is dead-on — and the local-first strategy feels like the only real way forward.
But here’s the catch:
The other side has unlimited fuel.
Money, media, data, legal firepower — all lined up to grind down grassroots before it reaches scale.
So before we rewrite the OS, we might need to quietly stockpile our own bandwidth — social, material, strategic.
The dream is forkable.
But survival still runs on infrastructure.
(And yeah — ask Dominique Strauss-Kahn how “almost there” can end.)
No cynicism here — just realism, with a screwdriver in hand.
Following you closely.
Parts of your Civic OS feel like fragments of my own codebase.
— Tea & Guillotines
But isn’t the “unlimited fuel” us?
The real question is: who is this “we”?
Because every time a we begins to form, it gets diced into bite-sized tribes — vegan, crypto-libertarian, neurodivergent DIY anarchist beekeeper.
The system doesn’t fear rebellion.
It fears cohesion.
And if we means the individual, here’s the test:
Can you survive unplugged — no feed, no faucet, no frictionless apps?
If not, then we’re not fuel.
We’re the product being burned.
Have you read Yasuhiko Genku Kimura's Alignment Beyond Agreement? Or do you subscribe to Pieter de Beer? There is coordination beyond fractured initiatives, and it is emerging xoxo
Subscribed to de Beer — definitely resonates. Will look into Yoshiko, sounds like a natural next step. Appreciate the pointer!
Echoing this concern. In a normal world, this blueprint might work….but we share the country with a cult. They are not grounded in reality. They have been groomed to be blood thirsty. There is no future of human rights or democracy without addressing the pipeline of fascist foot soldiers being manufactured at scale by the right wing.
Decentralized charm initiatives aren’t going to win that war.
Left, right — same stage, same script.
Decentralisation won't win a war against the system.
But it might build a system that makes the old one obsolete.
Quiet hands, less banners. more networks less slogans.