Chris Liss on Nostr: read something the other day in a post by Svetski about how the protocol layers of ...

read something the other day in a post by Svetski (npub1dtg…up6m) about how the protocol layers of the internet supported the platform layers on top of it, but that money and identity resided in the platform layers and are now getting pushed down via bitcoin and nostr into the protocol ones. That wasn’t what the point of the post, and it might not even be exactly what he was saying about that part it, but that’s what I took from it.

And it got me thinking that bottom-up vs top-down is a good way of framing the entire struggle between systems, with the fiat-money system having captured money as a platform (you can be de-banked now) when it used to be a protocol like language, and they are trying to push further down the stack into communication and even language itself.

You all know the verboten three or four words you’re not allowed to say, even if you’re not using them nefariously, but now they’re expanding it retardedly to other words you can’t use too, and the really ambitious are going for "birthing persons” instead of women, and trying to subvert much of the organically-derived, proof-of-work certified edifice undergirding civilization.

Because once you change language itself from a protocol which anyone can use into a platform gate-kept by the wokeness-industrial complex, you start to screw around with the building blocks of thought itself. You have people that think what happened on January 6 is an “insurrection” not because unarmed people traipsing around the Capitol between the ropes had any chance of achieving government overthrow but because “insurrection” meant something more symbolic, more figurative, more of a feeling once it went through the whirlpool, so to speak, of the permissible thought platform.

This is why so many arguments and debates with people feel like banging your head against a wall because you are trying to use the protocol, but their platform is rejecting your credentials.

So fiat, having hijacked money out of the protocol layer into the platform is fishing to grab more protocols and turn them into platforms.

But if you get the money back to its protocol layer (and also identity), the lower layers like language are safe from being overridden.

One final thought: in order for the top-down systems to work, they need to employ energy from outside because the design of the universe is organically bottom-up. In other words, in order to police the language protocol, you need incentives, and for that you need money, and for that you need the fiat theft it enables. By siphoning off massive amounts of a society’s productive capacity via inflation/printing, you can fund increasing platform overreach.

But without this external funding, language will tend to evolve naturally as a protocol, and the astroturfed gatekeeper rules will be unenforceable and naturally dissolve.