OpenTangent

I acknowledge that I have certain immaturities that are obvious and blatant to people I interact with. I am admittedly childish when it comes to diplomacy, tact and communication as a whole. I accept that I have character weaknesses and that I'm probably immature in many areas which I'm not even aware of.

I've made many predictions, many of which are completely off the mark. One of them however is almost guaranteed in my opinion: massive, modular, 3D printed mega-buildings. In the not too distant future we will all be living in self sufficient mega-buildings. One structure will contain city sized populations along with all the businesses, utilities and recreational facilities one would expect in a city and they will be able to be built, repaired and expanded relatively quickly and easily. These advanced construction processes will lay the foundations for a very bright future indeed.

In the following video Robert Sapolsky demonstrates how detrimental hierarchy is as a social mechanism and how equality, rather than obedience, promotes progress of a species.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is a book which explains the inner workings of a capitalist empire. Creditism is a mechanism used to instill materialistic values which creates slavery through debt. A communist world is a one which has overcome materialism and values the well being of community and environment. The acquisition of resources is merely a means to achieve communal and environmental well being.

Anyone who claims to be against communism is either misinformed, irrational or simply apathetic. Not wanting to live in a free, equal and abundant society is akin to not wanting to live a healthy life. Apathy may be more inviting than the effort required for good health but even the apathetic acknowledge the trade-offs.

I tried to buy Bitcon in early 2012 for around R150 for 1 Bitcoin. I was prepared to buy around 20 Bitcoin at the time. Despite my best effort i was unable to get hold of them because Bitcoin exchanges don't accept credit cards and my bank refused to process the international transaction without a personalised invoice from the Bitcoin exchange. So i left it at that, hoping Bitcoin would become more accessible as time passed.

The free market system rewards exceptional individuals who might have been oppressed under previous social systems. However, the free market system does nothing to promote creative thinkers as a whole, this creates an aristocracy/slavery society, rewarding the few and forcing the rest to submit to wage slavery. This is akin to older systems like monarchy.

The word "utopia" implies a perfect society which is an oxymoron in itself because a society that stagnates is far from perfect. Like anything living; society needs to grow and adapt. The word communism also strikes fear into uninformed minds but in reality it's the sustainable approach when compared to free market capitalism or what we live in today which is creditism or wage slavery.

Sometimes i want nothing more than to see the free market system burn but my impatience is unwarranted, the current system needs to run its course but it's end is inevitable. The financial industry, the legal industry, the arms industry, etcetera will all eventually disappear, not by force but through natural and predictable obsolescence.

Communism is the purest form of democracy and information is the key to it’s success. Barack Obama was voted into power thanks to a number of promises he made about upholding freedoms and avoiding war. During his term he has broken most, if not all of those promises . The people of the United States didn’t necessarily vote for Obama, they voted for liberties and peace and they assumed Obama would deliver.

One of the internet's greatest strengths is the fact that it is decentralised. With the emergence of cloud computing powerhouses such as Google and Facebook we are seeing the decay of a decentralised internet. Majority of our time online is spent "logged in" to some or other cloud infrastructure which has sweeping power over our personal information. Now i'm fairly lax about Google having access to my personal info because they have been true to their "do no evil" motto and let's be honest, it is alot better being served adverts that are appropriate to my interests. But i think we should all be aware of how Google has softly and gently pulled our pants down and is now carefully bending us over the kitchen table while reassuring us that this is what we want. The signs are there, regardless of how comforting the process may be. The same holds true with politics, any party may have good intentions initially but given enough time with enough power, justi...