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« on: May 04, 2024, 01:25:16 PM »

I am a member (have attended meetups and such) of an organization whose ideology is that people with common values, particularly ideological or religious values, should use DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) to coordinate moving to particular cities, then lobby those cities to officially use a currency issued by that DAO, and then control those cities through monetary policy.* People involved in the movement have a wide array of ideologies they want to see promoted (including some far-left ones; transgender people are very overrepresented), but it is most commonly some flavor of far-right. (Let a thousand Zionisms bloom!)

I think advocating for crypto kind of obviously means having a very materialist view (you probably think making lots of money is good, to care deeply about what the money should be), but less obviously it has a streak which is anti-majoritarian ('we can create our own society which will influence everyone, regardless of how people vote') and a streak which is strongly utopian, and in the 21st century utopian worldviews are much more common on the far-right than the far-left.

A global meetup of organizations at least sort of in alignment with this vision was held in Amsterdam last year; there is a lot of diversity on specifics because the whole point is that this is meant to promote all ideologies, but you get some common themes.

*Not everyone would endorse every detail of that, and you could simplify it to 'people should organize themselves to create new strongly ideological societies', but most of the suggestions for those societies would involve cryptocurrency or blockchain in some way as part of the governing mechanism.

Srinivasan is probably the most prominent person actually pushing a vision like this, although I don't think the stuff actually happening in 'network state'-inspired organizations is very much like the stuff being discussed in this thread at the moment (there's much more of an emphasis on secession and trying to create new things, rather than try to recreate San Francisco from the ground up, though that absolutely does logically follow from the general premises). I think he's also become quite a bit more deranged since COVID happened -- my understanding as of late 2022 was that he had abandoned the United States for Singapore, though perhaps he's back.

But I do think it's a valid observation that an eventual effect of modern communications technology combined with a growing economy will be to enable rapid cases of ethnogenesis followed by population movements; Srinivasan wants a 'tech Zionism' but what his work proposes (and I think judging by the variety of projects at network state events he's aware of this) is an 'everything Zionism', where over time all ideological projects shift from trying to change the communities they exist in towards trying to set up new communities (and, yes, sometimes in ways that overtake existing communities in pretty radical ways).
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