User:Ssstephen/Reading/Six Difficult and Inconvenient Values to Reclaim the Future with Old Media
Slow
Inefficiency and slowness as a way to escape planned obsolescence and "the relentless push toward productivity, consumption, and waste". I like this idea but I wonder if it can ever fall into the category of direct action, as opposed to protest? Is inefficiency a real strategy for an alternative way of living? Slowness absolutely, maybe its just the term inefficient that sits funny with me. Inefficient I assume means complex, having unexpected outputs, accepting unexpected inputs, flexible, adaptive, non goal-oriented, organic. This idea to me is not the opposite of "efficient" but something else, just as slow is not the opposite of fast. Opportunity for more positive definitions again, I will rename this one
Zen
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I like small too, but it sometimes sounds like separate to me. Maybe scalable isn't such a bad word, but not the way it is usually meant. Elastic, stretchy, squishy. Systems (networks, machines, ideas) that can adapt to and serve the people, situations and things that compose them. There's always room for one more at the table. It's ok if you need to go. Maybe this one could be called
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Open
"The vast majority of us will never understand how the internet works at the levels of software, hardware, and infrastructure". That's ok. Most of us will never understand dentistry, or group theory, or how to sing baqashot. Some of these things are inaccessible without training and some of these things can only be understood or advanced by larger groups instead of individuals. And some people don't want to hack their roomba, that's also ok. However I do agree with the general point so only a slight change into
Openable
Censorship and accessibility are also in this category which is a related but additional issue, also to do with control. The issue of freedom of speech is a whole can of worms that I dont have time for right now. So I'll just add in a point
Accessible