Hi all,
Bellow message explains my thoughts and idea in more details, I hope it is self explanatory: I am hoping that the timing is right to get the required momentum. Sadly I have no special IT skills and cannot do more than spread this message without mirrors to apps, but if I'm not just some crazy guy, then this message should spread fast and many developers should add their piece to the path.
- Teaser by Dig AI -
The Green Pill is not a political party, not a movement, not a religion. It is a choice. It is a decision. It is a call to action. It is a way to say, "I am tired of this. I am tired of waiting for someone else to fix it. I am tired of being a cog in a machine. I am ready to take control of my life, my community, and my future."
The Green Pill is an app, a digital tool that will be used to spread the message, to coordinate the movement, and to prepare for the worst. It is a way to say, "I believe in the possibility of a better world. I believe in the power of the people. I believe that we can do this together."
- About the Project -
To make it simple, I and many others are sick of this society in which everybody complains about the same thing and nobody does anything but say “I can’t do anything but vote and pray”. What sickens me even more is that these same people are getting more and more extreme, manipulated by some to believe that the issue is not our system but some minority or another, or even women or men or religions that are no minority at all.
I tried believing that people would eventually move towards the only possible peaceful outcome that I see, the old fatality of a world anarchy, were each community would care about its own problems instead of being foreigners to each other and hoping that some politicians will solve the issue for us; they can’t. This concept or ideology that’s so scary and misunderstood by many is simple, the oldest book I know that explains it is quite complex though. To try a very brief summary, a politician named Plato explained why he is part of the problem by accepting the responsibility and slaves given by the population to allow him solving their problems. The other part of the problem is the people providing this and hoping that he and his peers solve their problems for them. He then takes much time explaining how a central system is too complex and that we usually know the best solution to our problems ourselves. Plato claimed that he only quoted his teacher.
This was concept was rewritten many times, and I suppose some could say that the old testament already said it to some extent: humanity has been punished several times for its vanity. In the 16th century, a thinker called Thomas Moore renamed the concept to utopia, not a fatality anymore but a nice dream; well, if humanity could not take the many hints, sometimes sent by their own leaders, for nearly 2000 years, then it must be only a dream after all.
The other central system has been tried for millenniums with many names such as kingdom, empire, tyranny, and many others, our days it truly is kind of global and called capitalism. Like every system before, it calls for a war, a purge, a reset. Nobody hides their hatred anymore, but mostly they claim it is the fault of someone else. That’s the beauty of capitalism: nobody can have too much power or responsibility, nobody can change anything alone. This time we have the knowledge and the choice, will we, like all generations before wait for the reset, or are we going to decide talking with our asshole of a neighbor instead? Maybe he is an asshole, but you can talk with him, he knows the local conditions as well as you do, hence better than any politician unless he is one.
However, I know that despite all our complains, we love our system and don’t believe in a war. Venezuela, Mexico, Iran and many others had bloodbaths in the past few months due to one of the two main powers wielding this global economy. Well, likely most readers of this will think “so what, it’s sad for them but I can’t do anything and war won’t come here, my country is in one or the other of the two big alliances.”, or something very similar. Please don’t forget that if most of us have a powerful computer in their pockets, the military is well funded and equipped too, and the last time the economy was in such a bad state, we needed not only one but two world wars (although I consider them as one with a small break in between). Our economy / system is truly global our days and our toys do more damage. And if your country has many drones and has known little human causalities recently thanks to them, these probably wouldn’t last the entire war between two giants sharing the world.
I always was a dreamer and believed in humanity. I am homeless by choice and see the good among humans all the time. However, I also see resignation, fear and depression. All so deep that our society is glued, we all know something is wrong but feel like we can’t do anything about it. My personal fear is that this inaction by us all will lead to the aforementioned global conflict.
Hence my proposal for something like a world referendum. For this to work, programmers would need to develop an app available in many flavors, easy to install everywhere in every language, maybe even as a more powerful OS, let’s call it the green pill for now. That app would offer a small summary of my current rant and two versions of the future, one in which we all decide to take our future in our hands and recognize the need for a different future, the other to trust that the current system will last at least as long as we need to die. If you believe in the first option, you install the green pill, share the message and distribute the apps. If you trust that our system is fine and humanity won’t do anything with their big mouths and toys, then take the red pill and don’t install the app.
The app itself, if installed would need to be scheduled to destroy the hardware it is installed on on a given date, for example coming equinox. Maybe more powerful versions could also have kind of an AI programmed to hack and infect all it comes across (with permission of the user would be preferable, especially on a smartphone also because such a feature would possibly drain the battery very fast). Ideally though, this app would have root access and could prevent access to the bios or booting from USB. I do not have the skills to write it myself or would post a prototype along with this message. This concept is as old as the internet and was even popularized in the movie Die Hard or Live Free (it is definitely older than this though, a hacker explained it to me in the late 90’s), although hackers didn’t leave the choice in the scenario I know, and in the movie they are driven by personal profit and fame. I considered learning to code myself and actually started, but I do not believe that there is enough time left and also reached the conclusion that if I am not alone with this thought, then many programmers will develop their own version. Also, the more versions exist the better, since this is meant to be public, one can assume that many won’t just click on take the red pill but will also actually try to prevent the plan from happening; the more codes, the harder it’ll be to stop if enough take the green pill. Companies and governmental agencies should not have the choice.
- The Dream of after -
Should you see this message with apps already, do not be scared, even if you do not agree, this may also just be the kick we all need. You may prepare in many ways even if you chose the red pill, get some books and knowledge stored, maybe even on a device that won’t be connected to the web until after. Start learning how to grow food, talking with your local community on how you could prepare to this possibility. Likely many would keep some hardware offline and a new internet built more like the darknet could be put in place to communicate and share that knowledge with other communities. If you live in a city, I cannot lie and pretend that you’ll keep your luxury, but if I’m no loon and the war comes, you won’t be in the best place to be in either. If you work for a nuclear plant or any other factory that could have serious issues if such a referendum succeeds, then start ensuring that the plant is nearly cooled down by the time the equinox arrives.
I do not have all the answers, actually I have very few and would say that the answer to every question will be local at any rate. One answer I do have though, is that we are the first generation who has the knowledge, power and infrastructure to implement such a referendum, the first for whom maybe no one has the means to change anything alone, but we have the means to coordinate a collective wake-up call before it is too late. Our knowledge will help, our depressions will be healed by a sense of purpose when waking up. The first diseases like hernia appeared when we stopped being hunters gatherers for the luxury of a home and a field; our days we have the knowledge to make the work in the field easier and know that we all would work much less that a regular full-time job, if our job simply is to live and ensure some stability. The disease of our new age, currently called (post-)industrial, later likely age of garbage, is cancer. The worst of it is that scientists are sure that we never actually gained life-expectancy with these diseases, I’m not sure we’re not losing some or lost some already; am no scientist though, just a homeless wanderer who’s fed up of being interrupted while at peace in the woods by people who want to complain about the same thing over and over instead of seeing the bird feeding it’s babies. Fed up by cops saying they’d like to have the courage to do the same as I and leave this society. Fed up that despite having tried to leave it, the only way to leave it for good is to leave all the people I care about forever because they are in places where this modern slavery system is in your face everywhere you look. Fed up of people complaining but being too scared to do more, hoping for someone else to fix our issues for us. Fed up of these grown-up children. The solution has been written, sang, probably even painted for millenniums, even sometimes by oppressors, our days there have been countless of modern songs, movies and even video games saying the solution. I heard people of all income category, so called rich, poor, dumb, intelligent, manager or farmer, even cops and judges, they all said it in their own manner, the simplest being “we need to get back to exchanging goods and services”.
I do not know if it is the best solution, but I believe this could be the kick we all need to better our entire race. If you agree, please share, please code if you know how, please try to prepare your entourage for a few hard years leading to our first actual evolution for millenniums. We all can do something, just talking about this message will be something, translating it, illustrating it with local examples of what annoys you and your family and friends.
Let’s make a better humankind together, let’s take the green pill, open our eyes and rediscover how pretty the world is, how nice it is to breath, smell, eat, drink, dance, laugh, sleep,… Life is beautiful, I just want to turn all these distractions off from it.
Firesale4gaia
