This is a beautiful vision, but the variable left out is thermonuclear disaster, ecocide, and cheap energy.

Cheap energy is required for the functioning/evolution of this next plane of existence. None is in sight, and the potential solutions will be fought against with every tool available to the owners of fossil fuel, America.

Note— “America” is this usage denotes the cabal of corporations and government entities that functions under the label of America, or, ‘The West.’

There’s no shortage of examples— more than a million innocents murdered from the attack on Iraq; six million from Vietnam; and that’s not even getting into the century of terror in the Caribbean, South and Central America.

China, oddly enough, seems most on track systematically to evolve into something akin to your short thesis.

But, that evolution depends on an Earth to sustain life, and security, which is difficult when you’ve got the most belligerent State in human history running nuclear war games a few miles of your coast.

Sadly (or not), the most likely next stage for human evolution will be a state of rebuilding and recovery under dire environmental conditions.

Civilizations is indeed collapsing at this very moment, and I dearly adore your vision of whete it goes next.

Unfortunately, the society you describe is a fragile one, and the families that have exploited this planet and its inhabitants for millennia have no qualms about thrashing the chessboard if they feel at even a slight disadvantage.

I had to look it up — 2006 founded by Aaron Schwarz, who they killed for his contributions…

He would shit if he knew what corporate tool its become.

I got on in 2008 when the internet was still wild and free and beautiful…

In 2011 you could find out everything you needed to know to buy <almost> anything you wanted on the darknet via Reddit.

Vendors used to run specials- you could interact w them. Hell, you could still chat w Dread for a few years after come to think of it.

The Establishment just had NO idea

Man, when all that collapsed — when those FBI banners sprang up all over the deepweb, it was like you just knew it was the beginning of the end.

Reddit cracked down shortly after … as usual, they cracked down on stuff that shoulda been locked down long before (underage/sketchy nudes), and used that as an excuse to just shatter all the libertarian communities (small ‘l’, not like Ron Paul).

Ha ha— that little date look up sent me down a memory hole, lol!

Are there stats?

I have to imagine Reddit has aged — I know I have, lol.

But, also, the how-to content is huge now. It was a lot more niche when it was first rolling.

Censorship is a growth business in the West.

I wasn’t arguing the point, just adding to it. Looked up the stats in response to the comment and thought it was interesting.

> average demographics on Reddit is very very young

That was true back in the day, but currently 18 to 29 and 30 to 62 are almost exactly equal, and account for about 70% of users.

Kinda crazy …