Provocation: On the need to defeat the digital hegemony

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On the need to defeat the digital hegemony

by Steven Michalove(c) 2024

He·gem·o·ny

h??jem?nē,?hej??mōnē/

noun

1. leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
2. "Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871"

At the beginning of this century

Almost without realizing it we have come to observe the rise of a digital channel that has enabled nefarious power mongers the ability to dominate the messaging available to the people almost without realizing it we created an infrastructure that enabled both the best and the worst of society to become lit up in a way that was unpredicted and unpredictable. This was not done by intent; quite the opposite in fact and it started as a movement to liberate the flow of information between academics in the developed countries as those that were currently using computer technology.

Once GSM mobile phone radios became mainstream we saw a rapid adoption by countries with very little existing wireline communication and the era of massive networks came to pass almost by accident.? This allowed even the smallest land holder or agricultural trader to trade far outside her locality and enable micro trading and global gig based transactions.? The rise of GMS based payment systems gave rise to later digital monetary flows systems that have far outstripped as a function of transactional volume conventional monetary networks like IBAN and SWIFT. ? Eventually crypto currencies became a sideband monetary flow but still this was a gold standard like asymmetrical currencies founded on the idea of artificial scarcity like the Gold Standard. Other scarcity based systems like petro-dollars became embedded. ? The evolution of digital monetary systems is just beginning.? This will lead to the decay of asymmetrical gold standard style currencies. Newer post modern digital currencies will supplant the monetary systems of the last decade like a Like Spanish Galleon laden with gold floating down to the bottom of the sea.? Bitcoin will turn to Tulips and die.

Near the beginning of of the previous century the internet was created as a? facilitator of research and academic interest. ? in fact commercial content was banned and prohibited from most of the Technologies at the time. once CERN created the browser there arose the ability? to? layer commercial interest on top of this network and create a user sack that was specifically aimed at the Common Man.

Once the down fall of the academic use case became apparent and Commercial operators became the primary interest using this new infrastructure we saw use models that really reflected the social fabric of people in the world with social networking. unlike other types of media we now see that it can be used but has business to person and person to person messaging. Original manifestations did not include business to person messaging.

On scarcity and capital outlays

?Throughout history most capital-intensive industries get dominated by a few significant players due to the barriers to entry.? Information Age Industries are also dominated by a few key infrastructure owners. What is less apparent is the backchannel of observation of this media by governmental agencies and its intentional manipulation of messaging across all of the different use cases. However we discern once again experts at propaganda.? Information Warfare in another context was born. Surveillance technologies were applied to personal person communications as well as NGO to NGO Communications by the mid second decade it became clear that governmental agencies were not only starting to expose content that would otherwise have remained secret but also began to manipulate that release as a way to drive the message forward to their interest.?

This is not unlike lobbying of special interest in Democratic societies. However this is less than truthful and aimed at unaware individuals rather than skeptical political leaders.

Once Snowden exposed some of the technology that allowed governmental agencies to effectively spy on every single channel of the internet. that enabled our corporate brethren to build big data models based on their commercial data as well. The age of Big Data manipulation had begun. This in turn led to a number of counter movements including WikiLeaks and anonymous. In popular culture, television programs like Mr Robot express the fears of a society entering an era of digital marginalization.?

Loss of innocence and death of the Internet’s original intent

As the commercial internet became embedded into popular culture and into the everyday lives of our children and their parents the soul of the internet was lost and people lost sight of the fact it was created as an academic Network free of commercial interest. This once again demonstrates the dominance of a few asset owners. This is not unlike the domination of plantation owners in the south. Rather than you slaving minority citizens we are now moving willingly into enslavement of the Mind.

When merit fails and message dominates

The master stroke in this work of art by the asset owners was the establishment of a presidency based not on the merits of the person being elected but on control of the messaging of the agencies with an agenda; that person. is clear that culpable deniability is being used on a regular basis to control the message. Word dominance of the messaging includes disavowment of the truth. This is very similar to the techniques used in Nazi Germany where the people were not actually aware of the harm that was being inflicted on the world around them. Himler and Hitler were Masters at deceiving the people. We see this also with Putin and his fastest use of today's communication channels to manipulate a message to his liking and gain additional power for him and his country. economic subjugation of citizens of most countries is being taken for granted.

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Of the Nascent digital economy and rise of censorship

We have all come to realize that this thing called the internet is now a major source of income and ability to run a business on any scale. this creates a level of fragility in our infrastructure never seen in the history of man. I have concluded that the world of open-source where individuals code to their interests rather than the corporate interests of the asset owners is an optimal solution to rebel against this digital oppression that we now experience.

When you begin to look at repressive regimes around the world you will first note that they control their messaging centrally. This is done in countries like China with devices like the great firewall of China which is a political system of Oppression and censorship. In the United States this is accomplished through commercial asset ownership and governmental agencies like the NSA and the CIA. There is no easy way to delete the ownership dominance in our current system. Therefore I proposed the creation of a new and free internet based on the soul of the original Network which shall not be controlled by anybody. the entire network will be open to all like the open-source world of code.? Putin will no longer be able to murder reporters and whistle blowers. Nor dominate the way Himmler once did.

Ultimate failure of asymmetrical currency based upon synthetic scarcity

My solution is to build a company that creates and off-planet network that cannot be under the jurisdiction of terrestrial A governmental bodies. this network will be created and designed by Academia for Academia. all users of the network get paid. In fact it will wipe away existing blockchain base cyber currencies and go to a centralized model that is controlled only by the network itself. This will be a symmetrical currency based on the value of human life. everyone will be born into the world with X number of information minutes and their life's value will be granted based on their ability to utilize the network for their own game and in their own interest. the scarce scarcity required and by monetary Will be our own 2.8 billion genes that you bring? to life.??

Open and not controlled by a central regimine

This new open source network will allow anyone to place their own code into existence where the value of the work is not based on the background of the person but on the time that they have utilized to create it. this means that anyone can partake in any kind of gig that they want to use their time with.This is a new monetary Theory based on symmetrical currencies where the value brought to bear is not the sweat of Labor but on a baseline of the number of genes the number of years remaining in your life. we will not be subject any longer to the lottery of Talent OR of social welfare. This will create the ultimate Level Playing Field and ability for Universal income for All Peoples regardless of their skills and social background.

This is not to say that there are not perils involved with this method. I do not propose a change of asset ownership nor a redistribution of wealth. what I propose is a new monetary Theory not based on the gold standard but based on the gene standard. You know the unit of measure becomes your lifespan. the most precious resource is your attention span? and your ability to place code into the world. This is not just code into the network but code into the physical world.. this will become open source symmetrical currency and infrastructure.?

We will provide internet services to the entire Globe into the solar system. This will be a zero-cost subscription model; the revenue will be based on currency utilization and not on play pay-to-play. The current asset owners will invest heavily and the future of computing is based on its infrastructure today. it will become clear that the mass surveillance that we have today to not continue nor can the manipulation.? Any country origin or nation that does not have adequate privacy protections for their citizens will be granted special protections by the network. this will be ? accomplished by differential privacy Technologies in such a way that even quantum computers cannot crack the veil of secrecy.

The end of the plantation mentality

We will fully adopt the idea of legitimate interest as a human right and protect the privacy of the home planet citizens in such a way that countries like China and? Russia and others may not violate either by negligence or through malfeasance. Just like every other participant in the Network only bodies with legitimate interest have access to your data. EU legal structures will dominate these protections. We will adopt such beneficial protections as freedom of speech and need for legitimate interest to puncture the veil of privacy and Network ubiquity. All users of the network will be given the option to fully protect their data using their own genetic fingerprints and encrypt the data in such a fashion that it becomes impenetrable to government agencies? without? legitimate interest.

The dominance of asset ownership and gold standard type symmetrical monetary systems will completely fall away after a decade-long transition. A new set of basic human rights will arise based on the right of privacy and free expression and open source code sourcing of the world. The gig economy will become mainstream and using a percentage of the monetary flow of M1 and M2 as a percent of investment in the common good will become commonplace. Which political body will be granted a set of revenue to do public works and add value to the common good. All resources in the solar system will become available for Exploration. we will no longer be constrained by planetary resources or on artificial distribution of wealth. Symmetrical currencies will do this as a function of their existence.

The fragility that we currently have and that dominates our current Internet infrastructure will fade away to a thing of the past . Dominance of the technical elite will fall to the wayside.? Once again people will control and control their own messaging in their own data and their own targeting. if your data is to get syndicated to a third-party you get paid in proportion to the span of your life left. As your availability of your attention span becomes lower your compensation will rise. we will see rapid decay and youthful poverty. The idea of starving children will become as unpopular as the demise of the great whales of the seas. Message fatigue is a factor here.? We will no longer be using the skins of? children in countries that are increasingly dominated by major powers to build jackets for comfort like baby seals were once used for jackets.