red flags

i keep writing/saying.. ‘red flag we’re doing it/life wrong’.. things we keep focusing on that are actually irrelevant s and cancerous.. if we listen deeper.. so.. these red flags are ie’s of bikeshedding ness..

[on re re reading david graeber‘s debt – realizing where most/all these red flags came from]

we have to let go of any form of m\a\p

so adding page to gather some of the things i think perpetuate our ongoing tragedy of the non common .. some of the things that i think are keeping us from legit common\ing .. from an undisturbed ecosystem.. from us..

list:

any form of measuring/accounting

any form of inspectors of inspectors

telling people what to do

takes a lot of work

literacy and numeracy as colonialism/control/enclosure

training

intellect ness

language as control/enclosure

democracy

public consensus always oppresses someone(s)

decision making – f & b & dm same law

democratic admin

finite set of choices

part\ial ness

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“Civility” has always been a red herring and code for keeping status quo oppression in place and the poweful in power.
Original Tweet:https://twitter.com/ubiquity75/status/1287045030130008066

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while re re re reading utopia of rules backwards..

should be huge red flag after yr of launching.. hiring (actually if hiring at all) for: 1\ spread the word 2\ raise money.. ie: nathan – coop ness, danah – data & society ness, et al.. those should be part of the planned obsolescence .. so gone in a year

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findings:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b free people

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