ronaldrobson on Nostr: "The question of anonymity and surveillance is essentially a dialectic of forests ...

"The question of anonymity and surveillance is essentially a dialectic of forests versus deserts. The desert is a place of complete uniformity and homogeneity. The forest is natural encryption where people are protected and they can advance their own ways of being. Anonymity allows people to create new ways of being and generate alternative political systems outside the small sphere of state-sanctioned activity. We call this the dark forest.

(...) The dark forest is non-state, rather than anti-state. It is radically exterior, alien."

- Rachel Rose O'Leary