Wilhelm von Freiheitsberg on Nostr: Since the Enlightenment, science became a social institution, and as such it's ...
Since the Enlightenment, science became a social institution, and as such it's subject to political disputes. Either locally among professors/researchers looking for grants or in a large scale when it comes to back with its authority social tendencies financed by groups in power.
The power over the printer often dictates everything else bellow it. My thought (or perhaps wishful thinking) is that when we decentralize financial power and give back to individuals its sovereignty, we consequently breaks the power of some institutions. However, in order to dilute the academic power in a productive and responsible way, we must bring a decentralized alternative, which I call **Digital Guilds**.
The main obstacle towards this decentralization of methodological knowledge inquiry is the mental model of the Bitcoin enthusiasts. A decentralized P2P or federated protocol is meant to bring the freedom of disassociation, not the abolishment of any sort of association. It's the end of coercion from a centralized power, but not the end of spontaneous and voluntary association under a power.
In my opinion the emergency of Bitcoin and Nostr are just the first steps, everything else built on top of it will be a laborious intellectual and cultural project for generations.
Anyway, I might need to elaborate this thought in an article, I just wanted to share this old thought of mine.
The power over the printer often dictates everything else bellow it. My thought (or perhaps wishful thinking) is that when we decentralize financial power and give back to individuals its sovereignty, we consequently breaks the power of some institutions. However, in order to dilute the academic power in a productive and responsible way, we must bring a decentralized alternative, which I call **Digital Guilds**.
The main obstacle towards this decentralization of methodological knowledge inquiry is the mental model of the Bitcoin enthusiasts. A decentralized P2P or federated protocol is meant to bring the freedom of disassociation, not the abolishment of any sort of association. It's the end of coercion from a centralized power, but not the end of spontaneous and voluntary association under a power.
In my opinion the emergency of Bitcoin and Nostr are just the first steps, everything else built on top of it will be a laborious intellectual and cultural project for generations.
Anyway, I might need to elaborate this thought in an article, I just wanted to share this old thought of mine.