Treeshepherd
Wood Member
Today, many people avail themselves of peer-to-peer services, like ride sharing with Uber and Lyft, or they find accommodations through Airbnb. This trend of democratization, or grassroots cooperation, borders upon anarchy. The Establishment (taxi cartels and the hotel industry) fights back with ferocity.
As the tag line states on USmessageboard, this is a place where everyone’s voice can be heard, even the voice of cultsmasher down in the USMB Badlands. In this sense, USmessageboard borders on anarchism. The Establishment is ever bent upon internet censorship. I remember the days when you could download any movie or song from some website in Poland, or what have you, and the days of Napster and Limewire. I remember when the internet was the realm of pirates and wizards. Now, our struggle is to prevent the internet from becoming another Establishment tool of State-sponsored propaganda. A pessimistic man might say that we merely serve as speedbumps upon the road to internet hegemony.
We see opinions changing about the legalization of marijuana, and the writing upon the wall, and we see a reflexive response by the Establishment to pass laws which in a sense legalize the herb, but in another sense seek to regulate and raise taxes in the wake of the inevitability of legalization. The Establishment seeks to dictate who can be licensed to sell marijuana, and the flunky grower who turned on the lights in the garage and made a living from a pound per month is put out of business.
We see opinions changing about homosexuality, and we see the Establishment capitalize upon marriage and divorce fees, rather than a homosexual movement that rejects Statism, needing not the sanction of government approval.
It is a cliché; When the people lead, the leaders will follow. That is normally true. But, the Babylon System swoopes in to dictate the terms of inevitable change. There is ever a struggle between anarchy and authoritarianism.
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” ~ Edward Abbey
As the tag line states on USmessageboard, this is a place where everyone’s voice can be heard, even the voice of cultsmasher down in the USMB Badlands. In this sense, USmessageboard borders on anarchism. The Establishment is ever bent upon internet censorship. I remember the days when you could download any movie or song from some website in Poland, or what have you, and the days of Napster and Limewire. I remember when the internet was the realm of pirates and wizards. Now, our struggle is to prevent the internet from becoming another Establishment tool of State-sponsored propaganda. A pessimistic man might say that we merely serve as speedbumps upon the road to internet hegemony.
We see opinions changing about the legalization of marijuana, and the writing upon the wall, and we see a reflexive response by the Establishment to pass laws which in a sense legalize the herb, but in another sense seek to regulate and raise taxes in the wake of the inevitability of legalization. The Establishment seeks to dictate who can be licensed to sell marijuana, and the flunky grower who turned on the lights in the garage and made a living from a pound per month is put out of business.
We see opinions changing about homosexuality, and we see the Establishment capitalize upon marriage and divorce fees, rather than a homosexual movement that rejects Statism, needing not the sanction of government approval.
It is a cliché; When the people lead, the leaders will follow. That is normally true. But, the Babylon System swoopes in to dictate the terms of inevitable change. There is ever a struggle between anarchy and authoritarianism.
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” ~ Edward Abbey
