From cb0e5b1ba66e2de7c3c1dafd4521ec32b9fe16df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 19:55:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Default commit message, part of an automated flow. --- engels.md | 1 + journal/2022-01-08.md | 1 + towards a knowledge commons.md | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/engels.md b/engels.md index e241161ac..1c774035d 100644 --- a/engels.md +++ b/engels.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # engels - a [[person]]. + - [[communist]] [[philosopher]] [[utopian]] [[friend]] - [[pull]] [[frederick engels]] [[friedrich engels]] diff --git a/journal/2022-01-08.md b/journal/2022-01-08.md index 93accd745..8b1137d10 100644 --- a/journal/2022-01-08.md +++ b/journal/2022-01-08.md @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ - [[una hora para la revolución]] == [[two pomodoros for the revolution]] - [[knowledge commons]] - [[digital commons]] + - [[engels]] - [[family]] - scheduled [[tomorrow]] - [[sota]] diff --git a/towards a knowledge commons.md b/towards a knowledge commons.md index 85a3c5f86..f0e803c98 100644 --- a/towards a knowledge commons.md +++ b/towards a knowledge commons.md @@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ As we enter [[2022]], I believe we are in a better position than ever to accomplish many great things as a society -- and this goes for many definitions of society, up to and including perhaps the most important, that as society as the group of all humans[^1]. In particular I believe that we are entering a [[renaissance of the internet]] that will enable it to deliver on the promise of a distributed commons that stalled somewhat in the last fifteen years due to the success of [[anti disintermediation]] as effected by interested parties. But hopefully you won't have to take my belief at face value; let me try to show you why I think what I think. +First of all, consider [[Free, Fair and Alive]] as taken in the spirit of [[Friedrich Engels]]: one goes with the other like a horse and carriage. Unfortunately Engels came up with the carriage but didn't have the horse to effect his vision. This is my vision: the internet is the horse that Engels and other Utopians before and after him were missing. + [^1]: I would myself include [[all sentient beings]] in the most general definition of this group, including those made out of silicon, but that's a topic for a different writeup.