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Big oil is too powerful? Stop buying gas from them.
Brilliant!
Same with capitalism, peoples. It's not a thing. It's not like the sun. It seemingly exists because you keep patronizing it by buying shit, especially shit you really don't need. We've learned there's a fuckload of negative side-effects to that dynamic at society scale.
Stop it - i.e. the unnecessary buying of unnecessary shit - and tell others how much better you feel for having been that much less covetous. Let that *ease* - in contrast to dis-ease - be what spreads.
In the meantime, the idea sat there. I read about the small web. I read about Geminispace. It seemed wonderful, the kind of community that has been wholly lacking since the beginning of the social media age of the web.
It's a wonderful description, but I've still not found it.
What I've found instead is like a lot of houses, each with a clipboard attached to a board pounded into the ground in the front yard, and every now and then home-dwellers sneak out to replace the piece of paper containing text clamped to their clipboard with another piece of paper containing different text, then scurry back into their house before anyone notices, because <deity>forbid they'd have to actually talk to anyone....
So I'm still here, still writing. Sometimes it's quiet. Sometimes I wonder who's reading. And every now and then, I get an email to my RTC address to chat about something. And it's wonderful. The connection with people again, something more meaningful than the nanogram of dopamine from a Like. All told this has been the most meaningful year of my online life since the early web, even if I still leave some things out, even if I'm still just an alias, just winter. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're all here, too.
Thank you!
I'm always excited to open a new installment of yours, and actually experience jealousy of your writing skills and writing patience, often wishing you posted more often.
But then maybe that would dilute the charm somehow....?
Dec 13 · 2 weeks ago · 👍 Minko_Ikana