Prelude What is unfolding in the United States is nothing short of grave. This is not the lament of a European critic—it is a simple truth: democracy is dead. My heart lies with the American people, especially those openly rebellious, who are daring to stand against the tide. Initially, I was enraged with American voters, to make things worse, the Signal story came out, where my people were dismissed as “freestanding” and “PATHETIC.”

So, over the last week, Europeans discovered we are depending on US big techs (you know the ones behind trump) 🫢

So I saw some “EuroStack” stuff trying to see what we can build to reclaim sovereignty, I engaged in a kind of unformal non-academic epistemological work about economics, anthropology, climate science, business management, and a lot of other things.

The more I worked, the more I realised that’s it’s not just about tech, this is not just an engineering problem. It is a fundamental, systemic collapse.

So my paper is in two section:

  1. An anthropological essay on neoliberalism, examining how capitalists were cunning enough to throw us social scraps to keep the gears of their operating system functional, but how they failed to anticipate the planetary limits.
  2. A naive attempt to propose something for Europe.

I just realized how Open-Source is the best argument against neoliberalism.

To my friends in the United States: my heart is with you. Know that humanity has always emerged victorious against tyranny. Nobody is freestanding; we are all part of something greater.

Here are some partisan songs from my terroir, just so you can be an international fighter for peace:

Keep fighting on, comrades. ✊ 🟥

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    To my friends in the United States: my heart is with you.

    it’s chilling for me to read this since i’ve been trying to escape from google’s prison walled garden for the last few years with each attempt failing; i wish i had never heard the slogan: “don’t be evil”

    my friends and family are stuck in musk’s, zuckerberg’s, and bezo’s gardens and they all recognize it, but shrug it off; it makes me think that we’re all doomed.

    • raskyld@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      We have the same thing in Europe. Do you know my dad’s reaction to my paper?
      “You’re going crazy. You’re smart—use it to do business.”

      This mindset is deeply ingrained in us, and breaking free from it requires courage, determination, and willpower. I think the reasons for this are:

      1. When you begin to break free from the illusion, you feel intense anxiety almost immediately—you come face-to-face with the “monster under the bed.” (That’s the “chilling” emotion you’re experiencing.)
      2. The model can still function to some extent in the short term, so we don’t feel an urgent need to move away from it.

      It’s all about the long term. Humans are not, contrary to what modern economists want us to believe, “rational” beings, nor do they have true “intertemporal choice” awareness. These axioms that all modern economic theory is built upon is pure bullshit. Sure, you can create a mathematical model for anything to make it seem “serious” and “true,” but if the fundamental axioms it rests on are practically false, then the entire framework is a lie.

      I don’t know how old you are, but the more we are to have this epiphany, there is hope. All we will need, is to come together and unify at some time. About your country, the more Trump makes US people starves, the more they will raise. Don’t let him break you down. 💚

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        he’s not making me break down; he’s making me want to leave.

        the problem is that i’m too american to be happy anywhere else now, but i’m already old enough to foresee that i can be happy elsewhere when i’m a little bit older.

        i’m probably almost your father’s age and i think he’s right: this is making you crazy like it’s making me crazy and almost everyone else on lemmy crazy as well. lol