It’s definitely going to be a process, but at this point I don’t even care what happens in the west to be honest. It’s isolating itself from the rest of the world, and rapidly losing its ability to project power and dominate countries. The rest of humanity will move on, and if people in western countries want to live the way they do then power to them.
I’ve wondered about this before as well. I recall that people in Russia really looked up to the west after USSR collapsed, and everybody was very hopeful thinking that Russia would be integrated into the western system and life would improve. Most people didn’t really understand what capitalism was, and didn’t expect the west to act in a predatory way towards Russia.
I haven’t participated much in the old games/mods communities myself, but I’ve done a bunch of open source work and connected with a lot of people across the world that way.
The promise of the internet was that it allowed people all across the world to connect with each other and build relationships. I suspect that ultimately this didn’t translate into high enough level of connections in general public to make a difference. Niche groups of people who established relationships and understanding, but majority of the people remained insular within their cultures.
Yeah, I feel the same way about this stuff. I see open source and digital piracy as political efforts first and foremost. Digital communism is a good term for that.
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It’s definitely going to be a process, but at this point I don’t even care what happens in the west to be honest. It’s isolating itself from the rest of the world, and rapidly losing its ability to project power and dominate countries. The rest of humanity will move on, and if people in western countries want to live the way they do then power to them.
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I’ve wondered about this before as well. I recall that people in Russia really looked up to the west after USSR collapsed, and everybody was very hopeful thinking that Russia would be integrated into the western system and life would improve. Most people didn’t really understand what capitalism was, and didn’t expect the west to act in a predatory way towards Russia.
I haven’t participated much in the old games/mods communities myself, but I’ve done a bunch of open source work and connected with a lot of people across the world that way.
The promise of the internet was that it allowed people all across the world to connect with each other and build relationships. I suspect that ultimately this didn’t translate into high enough level of connections in general public to make a difference. Niche groups of people who established relationships and understanding, but majority of the people remained insular within their cultures.
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Yeah, I feel the same way about this stuff. I see open source and digital piracy as political efforts first and foremost. Digital communism is a good term for that.