JD on Nostr: Nostr interests me because it raises the possibility of creating networks that will ...

Nostr interests me because it raises the possibility of creating networks that will make the job of the national security state a little more difficult. When we're protesting the crummy money system, 24/7 surveillance, and bad actors in the political realm, we're talking about the national security state.

This 1976 paper by Marcus Raskin, former member of JFK's National Security Council and lifelong critic of the national security state (Raskin even coined the term 'national security state') is a prophetic work that's essentially been ignored for almost 50 years. From the intro:


"It is not possible to understand the national security state and the reasons
which give rise to the need for dismantling it without mentioning the pro-
found and wrenching events of the last fifty years. The national security state
emerges from war, from fear of revolution and change, from the economic
instability of capitalism, and from nuclear weapons and military technology.
It has been the actualizing mechanism of ruling elites to implement their im-
perial schemes and misplaced ideals. In practical terms its emergence is
linked to the rise of a bureaucracy that administered things and people in
interchangeable fashion without concern for ends or assumptions."

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3491&context=lcp