Sort of. If you actually spend time thinking about government infrastructure beyond the surface level, you look at how much extraordinary work is accomplished by organizations like NIST, or just your local county waste treatment facilities or hospitals, you recognize how much benefit you get from that every day, how many problems are solved for you before you even think about them (seriously, just try to wrap your head around what it means that you can just take any electrical device and plug it into a wall socket and it just gets power, and adding or removing devices at random doesn’t bring down your local power grid or cause brownouts or safety hazards, and how complex the system behind that is) you realize how much staff and coordination is involved in keeping all of that working…
The reality is that “the system” is also “the people”, and how can we escape from ourselves?
Yes, and also no one that has responded to me so far has actually responded to what I said, fundamentally, in my first comment.
I have gotten a fair amount of ad hominem though. Always impressive to see that, definitely a sign of emotionally mature people with well thought out ideas.
You’re in an anarchist com. People here don’t really care about why things are organized this way; just that the state exist and that’s a problem. Lemmy as a whole has left leaning people, so they will talk about anarchy and means of production. Still if you are curious there is the far right version called anarcho capitalism which wants to see NIST as multiple private for profit entities. DOGE and the current shut down are part of the ancap plans for the US (inspired by Argentina)
It’s a social infrastructure hostage situation.
Sort of. If you actually spend time thinking about government infrastructure beyond the surface level, you look at how much extraordinary work is accomplished by organizations like NIST, or just your local county waste treatment facilities or hospitals, you recognize how much benefit you get from that every day, how many problems are solved for you before you even think about them (seriously, just try to wrap your head around what it means that you can just take any electrical device and plug it into a wall socket and it just gets power, and adding or removing devices at random doesn’t bring down your local power grid or cause brownouts or safety hazards, and how complex the system behind that is) you realize how much staff and coordination is involved in keeping all of that working…
The reality is that “the system” is also “the people”, and how can we escape from ourselves?
I don’t think you said anything fundamentally new in this comment that you didn’t say in your first one.
Yes, and also no one that has responded to me so far has actually responded to what I said, fundamentally, in my first comment.
I have gotten a fair amount of ad hominem though. Always impressive to see that, definitely a sign of emotionally mature people with well thought out ideas.
You’re in an anarchist com. People here don’t really care about why things are organized this way; just that the state exist and that’s a problem. Lemmy as a whole has left leaning people, so they will talk about anarchy and means of production. Still if you are curious there is the far right version called anarcho capitalism which wants to see NIST as multiple private for profit entities. DOGE and the current shut down are part of the ancap plans for the US (inspired by Argentina)