History repeats itself…

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History repeats itself, first as narrative, then as protocol

With apologies to Marx (“history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”… which is also true; failed protocols are the canvas of farce)

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I’m not sure how forced it is to relate this to Mark Vomit’s piece:

the convenience you demanded is now mandatory

The convenience you demanded is now mandatory
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Source: MARK VOMIT — Mark Vomit (2020)

Example:

  • First: how convenient that you can pay with your phone
  • Later the protocol forces you to pay with your phone
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That’s a great insight. Reminds me of the definition of tribalism: Everything not prohibited is mandatory.

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Now I think I’m reading too much into this… but I cannot avoid linking everything toghether using John Robb’s ideas (which I’m aware are on the doom-ish side and miss the positive aspects of these ideas):

tribalism: Everything not prohibited is mandatory.

Source of the following quotes: OODA Loop - John Robb on the Early Internet, Frameworks to Drive Decision Making, Network Tribalism and Emerging Threats (1 of 2)

  • A network forms online and it is open-source in the sense that there is no set leadership, and there are lots of people contributing to it and they get focused on a single idea and they push it forward. (…) So that is kind of this network tribalism that is very powerful. When it gets focused on an issue, it can take to the streets.

  • the network layer is now replacing what was tribalism, what was nationalism and patriotism, supplanting it.

  • The end state of that (…) could end up becoming what I call “The Long Night” if that propagates (…) We will have a kind of a long night of oppression because it will not just watch what you do publicly. I mean, it can get into every single private communication and change that, alter that, or censor that and use that against you. And then you have sensors, and you have all this other stuff that we are surrounding ourselves with. It becomes the ultimate nightmare.

History repeats itself, first as narrative, then as protocol

Could “The Long Night” be understood as the protocolized version of “network tribalism”?