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RE: Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now on Twitter
Ulbricht's punishment is not even about making an example out of him. It has more to do with the silent of terror. The idea is not to make an example out of him because examples are easily forgotten. I think they are trying to create a tombstone so big that people would remember it for far more than just a few small years.
Terror changed hands some time ago. Rocket launchers were exchanged for the pen of judges .... we are just seeing the after effects.
Interesting take. Ya, we're essentially in our infancy of becoming a civilized culture imo…
For the most part we live pretty civilized and are starting to figure it out. But then sometimes people are barbaric, and they do it as a "pretend to be civilized" process of a judge wearing a robe and pretending that the law says this and it's all orderly and makes sense blahblah
But when you weed through it, it's just people being thugs and capturing somebody to protect whatever interests. The "legal process" is essentially like an ex post facto excuse or justification for being barbaric and taking him.
For a long time time I thought that people simply don't care anymore. It took me sometime to realize that people not as apathetic as they are despondent. The whole system is built in way that it won't defeat you simply by using brute force (although that happens too). The system defeats you by tiring you out gradually, till you are forced to give up.
I think the recent resurgence of alternate lifestyles, Living in the nature, peaceful anarchos, crypto, etc, might have a lot to do with the current state of human mind at large.
Ya, it's complicated. I think definitely improving tho.
It's weird.. like you like to think if you were kidnapped at gunpoint in a crowded shopping mall or something, that you'd have everyone rushing to your help. And you probably would.
So if you're wronged by the system, hopefully the same kind of outpouring would happen.
But it usually doesn't. I don't know how to characterize it. I guess as long as we still have states and a top-down hierarchy to everything, people are necessarily in a frame of mind where it's easy to believe the main storyline and trust the authority.
The alternative/new media is in many ways a reverse reflection of the mainstream/old media. Sort of like the mainstream/old is still driving it, and the alternative gives their alternate view of the same storyline. I'd like to see them be their own drivers more often.
But ya, it keeps chipping away.. the people branching out like you mention, I think, evolves the overall mindset.