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The failure of Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment and Network States.

Neofeudalism doesn't work.






what does neofeudal mean in this context?

It's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.

Is it all that different than DNS, in that top level domains are owned by a certain 'gentry' and everyone else pays rent?

You don't have to pay for namespace in urbit btw only if you want a permanent handle (and when you buy a planet or whatever its yours, you don't pay monthly for it, but yes you buy it from someone who was granted ownership by king curtis)


Certainly not different in practice, and it’s also bad.

Yet ARPANET wasn’t originally designed to have a bunch of parasitic registrars collecting rent, so thats something worth considering.


It’s nothing new. Just monarchy with peasants and slaves.

Oddly enough, it seems that every time a self-selecting population of lunatics and sociopaths attempts to bootstrap a New Society, it proves their theoretical framework wrong. How curious… well, maybe next time!



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