So cute when a highly privileged white guy from the US tells you that there are not enough challenges in the world and that they explore how to build character, creating difficulties like cold plunges.
Check your privilege.
@vrneth@balajis A network nation can have functional sovereignty, combine concentrated hubs and people in other communities, decentralized infrastructure, and create new institutional arrangements. For me, Zuzalu may be close to it
@vrneth@balajis In contrast, network nation is focused on nation. It means a combination of culture, shared identity, and traditions. Without specific territory or having different hubs, the nation creates unity. It doesn't fight usual states but create a new layer
Many web3 communities tend to claim new ways of reaching rationality through technology or technocratic social practices. Inte brilliantly shows in her dissertation how "more-than-rational" re-emerges in blockchain cultures and what understanding of truth becomes central.
@annbrody7 I don't think that currently, there is a disbalance between individual and collective. Obsession with sovereignty is more of a reanimated rationality myth. It mainly ends up in underestimating affective atmosphere, aka vibes, and other valuable unconscious elements