That is quite coherent and helps make sense of what has been in my head. There was that aspiration of western assimilation being productive, but western assimilation has never been productive, only exploitative. I think people assumed this because the conditions were already chaotic and the lack of global communication media disallowed masses from learning about what they were trying to do with Africa (slavery), or in the past with India and China.
The other day I was on old-games.ru, looking at the comment sections of some of my favourite old games, and the crowdsourced files and patches. People from everywhere contributed files. It disgusted me to see all this is being treated as collateral damage by west elites, and western citizens are becoming uncritical parrots.
I have viewed since very long, this ecosystem of old internet, FOSS software and digital piracy as some form of digital communism, and have always wanted to preserve and empower it as much as I can. Its a very untalked topic and I do want to see if I can write something about digital communism that has existed silently within the western capitalist framework this world exists in.
Yeah, I feel the same way about this stuff. I see open source and digital piracy as political efforts first and foremost. Digital communism is a good term for that.
That is quite coherent and helps make sense of what has been in my head. There was that aspiration of western assimilation being productive, but western assimilation has never been productive, only exploitative. I think people assumed this because the conditions were already chaotic and the lack of global communication media disallowed masses from learning about what they were trying to do with Africa (slavery), or in the past with India and China.
The other day I was on old-games.ru, looking at the comment sections of some of my favourite old games, and the crowdsourced files and patches. People from everywhere contributed files. It disgusted me to see all this is being treated as collateral damage by west elites, and western citizens are becoming uncritical parrots.
I have viewed since very long, this ecosystem of old internet, FOSS software and digital piracy as some form of digital communism, and have always wanted to preserve and empower it as much as I can. Its a very untalked topic and I do want to see if I can write something about digital communism that has existed silently within the western capitalist framework this world exists in.
Yeah, I feel the same way about this stuff. I see open source and digital piracy as political efforts first and foremost. Digital communism is a good term for that.