The Locality Manifesto
Convincing experience, scaled by shared attention, drives collective action.
Collective action can be directed at collective good , collective demise or stagnation.
While North Korea is a contemporary stagnating civilization, bathed in ignorance, the era of the printing press between 1440 and 1930 created human rights, enlightenment thinking, the basis of our modern scientific understanding of the world, citizen's rights, parliaments and nation states.
Today, we live in another captured century, initiated by the invention of the radio, solidified by the TV, finalized by Social Media. The internet and social media once promised freedom, but they were quickly captured by an oligopoly of technology companies who sold people's attention to corporate psychologists who get paid to create advertisement that fool people about their Telos — their goal and true purpose — in life.
The price of this was the human heart.
In these times, Locality Media was founded, based on one cognizance: Human communication must be sovereign.
Existing social networks were good at serving everybody their own interest — losing not only connection with their physical neighbourhood, on top of that, losing the unifying signals of society, the causes everybody can get behind, the shared focal points of interest and attention that create common culture.
Even today, the sovereignty of our shared information space is under attack.
Algorithms serve each person a different reality and destroy the shared consensus of society.
Advertisements and Public Relations institutions engineer false desires and manufacture shared delusions.
Foreign subversion campaigns scaled by bots aim at western demoralization.
Some of these treat our souls and minds like toys, others like tools.
Together, they are Psycho-Slop.
Secret Agencies shout: No. We want to read your mind. We want to instill fear. We want mind control. But that is what the Catholic church preached, before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and Martin Luther translated the bible.
In 1536, William Tyndale was executed for heresy after translating the Bible into English; in 2012, Edward Snowden got labelled a traitor after revealing the biggest surveillance campaign in human history. Without the printing press, William Tyndale would have been a footnote in history.
Politicians and corporations shout: No. We want to lead you against your own interest. We want to feast. And somebody must be feasted. But that is what King James II shouted, before the thought of John Locke cost his throne and led to the English Bill of Rights in 1689 — that is what the French Monarchy shouted, before the march on Versailles.
We are Locality Social Cloud developers.
With every year since I started, the project has only gained in importance.
Our communication spaces are polluted.
The filth of AI slop, the filth of ads - we will wipe them away.
We are Aristotle, Guttenberg, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, John Locke.
We lost meaning, community and security.
We will bring them back.
We are François-Marie Arouet, Abbé Sieyès, we are Benjamin Franklin, we are Thomas Paine.
We are the will of western values and its people. Our thoughts tear down walls. Our minds set chains ablaze.
And by god, the Western Spirit is by our side. Unexpected allies from the past and present times appear in our dire times. Mathematics itself, a 200-year-old theorem by the legendary 'Princeps Mathematicorum' Carl Friedrich Gauss, holds the key to a new world.
Rewriting the problem of shared state synchronization in terms of replicated distributed automata allowed me to recognize it as yet another variant of the Gauss Divergence Theorem, a slight generalization: if and only if every measurable function on a manifold depends at most on shared background information, the flux through its boundary and inner variables, computation can be sharded. In a single dimension — only time — this allows us to cut the timeline at arbitrary points to compress the flux at the boundary between past and present into state snapshots called engrams.
But this story is not about me, but about us. Without you — without developers who dare put themselves in the lineage of high ancestors — this is dead code.
But together, armed and ready and with the strength of the Locality Social Cloud in our back, we can write the Digital Social Ecosystem of Tomorrows.
And we calmly say no to the politicians, to the corporations, to the algorithms, to the secret agencies. Our soul will not be corrupted. Our will not broken. All your efforts are in vain.
We are the Western Spirit become flesh, carried on as a tradition by the great men of our past. And as they won, so will we.
Let us together create a new world. Let us together fragment the social media ecosystem into thousands of apps with a shared userbase.
If a sovereign digital collaboration tool can help your local community flourish — join the Social Cloud Developers. If you want to be part of the people who set things right, at least a little bit — join the Social Cloud Developers.
If you look at history and you imagine yourself in the shoes of Voltaire, not King Louis XIV telling the people to eat cake — join the Social Cloud Developers. If you look at the present and you see fragmentation and insanity, join the Social Cloud Developers. If you look at the future and you understand the truth and beauty we can bring into this world, join the Social Cloud Developers.
No system, no incentives, no amount of bureaucracy, military force, no vote, no war, no tax can fix a man aimed at the wrong things, can direct the world at what's beautiful, can keep a system free from corruption. The future of man is decided in his heart.