the binary arms race between citizen and state
the binary arms race between citizen and state competing visions for a digital future. el gato malo consider the possibility that one of the defining features of the modern political, technological, and technocratic landscape is what fundamentally amounts to an arms race between governments and we the people. it’s a race across the finish line between technocratic systems of social credit and technological systems of societal emancipation. on the one side, you have an ever more encroaching technocratic leviathan seeking to control lives and livelihoods by developing inescapable nets of surveillance and social credit. your every move, transaction, and utterance will be monitored, measured, and manipulated. good kids get treats. bad children get excluded from everything. on the other you have the people fighting to evolve systems of communication, organization, commerce, and money into something personal and private, peer to peer, and owned by each and all as stakeholders. liberty and ag...