flix on Nostr: People yearn for the tribe. All our instincts pull us to a small, high trust, ...

People yearn for the tribe. All our instincts pull us to a small, high trust, homogeneous groups where reputation matters.

High civilisation requires more complex institutions that scale beyond these reputation and trust based relationships.

Authoritarians think that we can scale identity and reputation via facial recognition, social credit score and other automated impersonal replacements for trust. Their way leads to horrifying dystopia.

There is a better way. The Bitcoin way. A way to reduce the need for trust through openness, clear universal rules and equal access. Replace identity and reputation with institutions that make it difficult and costly to do evil.

Instead of universal surveillance and authoritarian control to keep people in check, which are inevitably abused by those in control of the system, decentralisation and trust minimised relations allow for massive scale societal interaction with freedom and low risk of deceit or abuse.