acv on Nostr: I'd say that we're stuck with our past. We're not likely to throw off our ...

I'd say that we're stuck with our past. We're not likely to throw off our governments. We're building infrastructure out into the wild so people can escape, but we'll never be rid of them. Like with biological systems, when the environment gets tough and resources thin, creatures get smaller. Governments will get smaller.

Ideally we remove from them all responsibilities, that we can. Anything thats really just a protocol, desirable coordination systems, easily voluntary. Titling Real Estate and cars, smart property, Marriage, Money, Digital Rights, Decentralized Identity, Financial contracts/products, decentralized smart grid/power systems, decentralized spectrum management. Whatever we can make a protocol for, that doesn't require violence in some degree, like police, courts, security. Deal with the rest with existing governments to minimize bloodshed.

If your money and real estate titles and other protocols and grids wouldn't be impacted, you're more likely to choose to revolt against an authority who is being oppressive, but that will merely put some other group in charge of physical security with a different ideology. The devil you know is typically preferrable to the devil you don't.