From: Abe Indoria <indoria@aindoria.com>
To: Davis Remmel <d@visr.me>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: The Imperative of Free Software
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:55:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABrvzf3ihxCAPWM1aV8m=UWQE1E-nZmo6iJfKOxqCoWtoM788Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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What does this have to do with libreplanet lol? I'm sure there are other
mailing lists for this content. You can't just add "We need free software
now" at the end of a multi-paragraph rant about wealth and call it libre
software related.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:52 PM Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss <
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I am really tired of the
> ultra-wealthy.
>
> They are a self-enriching plutocracy, and I mean that in the most
> literal sense. I am not just throwing fancy words around. I mean: the
> rich use their riches to woo and shoo ordinary folks to enriching them
> even more by stoking fear and influencing the public's collective
> actions through their control of mass media. Our entire country has been
> captured by a legitimate plutocracy, a society ruled by the wealthiest,
> which is fundamentally an existential threat to the mass' ability to
> democratically govern ourselves.
>
> I don't know how to fix the mess that's already been created, but I do
> know that without free software, the masses are forever captive to their
> wealthy overlords. The exchange of information and work, and therefore
> the core of society, is totally controlled by the decisions of software.
> That software and its control, today, is dominantly proprietary and
> unaccountable.
>
> Software control is social control. That it, too, was ever thought legal
> that one could posses not only a billion dollars of wealth, but a
> billion dollars of sole discretion, was the greatest swindle ever
> pulled. The amplification of the wealthiest's messages through
> proprietary technology, and their ability to censor, quell dissent, and
> influence public opinion give them unthinkable power.
>
> Today, the masses will get fucked by them. Tomorrow, the masses will get
> fucked again, forgetting about today's. And this will repeat.
>
> Some of the population, perhaps, even desire being controlled, and feel
> comfortable and cradled, without worry. These people are authoritarians;
> if not overt authoritarians, then submissive ones. And this behavior is
> anti-social, anti-liberty, and contrary to American values.
>
> And, I feel so horribly grossed that the wealthiest's schemes keep
> working every goddamn day. I am _exhausted_ of living with the richest's
> wooing and shooing, and my constitutional liberties, which I dearly
> treasure and which legions of people died to leave me with, discarded
> because nearly everyone else has been intentionally and subliminally
> feared into authoritarian, corporate comfort. The masses don't have the
> vocabulary or time to gaze at the power structures that control them, or
> if they do then still be helpless and too socially weak to do anything
> about it, until they finally reach their limit and either submit or bust.
>
> Free software might be the only thing that can restore our republic's
> democratic control. It's cheapness to copy, plus its ratcheting and
> blanketing legal copyleft, catalyzes its propagation and crystalizes the
> power of the people. The only way to break authoritarian manipulation is
> to choose against using their tools and vocabulary, and to stand up for
> what we know to be true, right, and just. Our fears cannot be
> manipulated if we choose against consuming the programming of those who
> stoke them. The decisions and future of our technological society can
> only be free if we choose free software _now_.
>
> Be well,
> Davis
>
>
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What does this have to do with libreplanet lol? I'm sure there are
other mailing lists for this content. You can't just add "We need free
software now" at the end of a multi-paragraph rant about wealth and
call it libre software related.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:52 PM Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
<[1]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I am really tired of the
ultra-wealthy.
They are a self-enriching plutocracy, and I mean that in the most
literal sense. I am not just throwing fancy words around. I mean:
the
rich use their riches to woo and shoo ordinary folks to enriching
them
even more by stoking fear and influencing the public's collective
actions through their control of mass media. Our entire country has
been
captured by a legitimate plutocracy, a society ruled by the
wealthiest,
which is fundamentally an existential threat to the mass' ability to
democratically govern ourselves.
I don't know how to fix the mess that's already been created, but I
do
know that without free software, the masses are forever captive to
their
wealthy overlords. The exchange of information and work, and
therefore
the core of society, is totally controlled by the decisions of
software.
That software and its control, today, is dominantly proprietary and
unaccountable.
Software control is social control. That it, too, was ever thought
legal
that one could posses not only a billion dollars of wealth, but a
billion dollars of sole discretion, was the greatest swindle ever
pulled. The amplification of the wealthiest's messages through
proprietary technology, and their ability to censor, quell dissent,
and
influence public opinion give them unthinkable power.
Today, the masses will get fucked by them. Tomorrow, the masses will
get
fucked again, forgetting about today's. And this will repeat.
Some of the population, perhaps, even desire being controlled, and
feel
comfortable and cradled, without worry. These people are
authoritarians;
if not overt authoritarians, then submissive ones. And this behavior
is
anti-social, anti-liberty, and contrary to American values.
And, I feel so horribly grossed that the wealthiest's schemes keep
working every goddamn day. I am _exhausted_ of living with the
richest's
wooing and shooing, and my constitutional liberties, which I dearly
treasure and which legions of people died to leave me with,
discarded
because nearly everyone else has been intentionally and subliminally
feared into authoritarian, corporate comfort. The masses don't have
the
vocabulary or time to gaze at the power structures that control
them, or
if they do then still be helpless and too socially weak to do
anything
about it, until they finally reach their limit and either submit or
bust.
Free software might be the only thing that can restore our
republic's
democratic control. It's cheapness to copy, plus its ratcheting and
blanketing legal copyleft, catalyzes its propagation and crystalizes
the
power of the people. The only way to break authoritarian
manipulation is
to choose against using their tools and vocabulary, and to stand up
for
what we know to be true, right, and just. Our fears cannot be
manipulated if we choose against consuming the programming of those
who
stoke them. The decisions and future of our technological society
can
only be free if we choose free software _now_.
Be well,
Davis
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-25 20:51 The Imperative of Free Software Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2023-04-25 20:55 ` Abe Indoria [this message]
2023-04-25 20:58 ` Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2023-04-25 21:01 ` Abe Indoria
2023-04-25 21:27 ` Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2023-04-25 23:27 ` Aaron Wolf
2023-04-29 17:05 ` Michael Wehram via libreplanet-discuss
2023-04-25 22:56 ` Greg Farough
2023-04-26 17:05 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto via libreplanet-discuss
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