Thread by @DualPowerApp

Technology should not be a minor footnote in our discussions around how we get free.

The designs of the technologies we now use in our day-to-day communications and organization – even just amongst comrades – are not conducive to cooperation, communalism, direct democracy, etc.

This has an insane influence over the organizational methods and approaches that we employ within the digital age.

Even if you aren’t tech-savvy, you should be joining in with @DualPowerApp, as questions around governance options are being explored.

This has wider implications.

If we want more offline and doing work for systems change, we must engage online in ways that allow us to prefiguratively and radically reorient values and attention toward democratic social processes and projects for decentralized, autonomous building of #DualPower structures.

Right now, we are trying to have “Left” discussions, do “Left” communications, do “Left” organization, etc., through platforms and technology designed around competition and consumerism, and to appeal to the worst parts of our collective psyches in service to profit.

This is obviously not sustainable, and it’s also unhealthy in the context of trying to build real community and bring consistent, sustainable attention to both ongoing community work, and problem-solving within communities of all sorts (as opposed to individuals/personalities).

We are on smart devices communicating with countless individuals and making countless exchanges through sophisticated software connected to global supply chains and infrastructure tied up in even more complex programs and algorithms of all sorts.

How much of this do we control?

If we all took more time to interrogate the technology – at least at the level of how we’re socializing with one another on a daily basis – we’d be able to strip the ruling class of some of their seemingly mysterious “voodoo” powers and harness technology for real systems change.