Distributed Systems

This is why we need distributed systems. This is why we need to migrate to the blockchain. We can no longer live off of the existing central systems that were built on the basis of digital authoritarianism we have in recent times deemed harmfully inefficient.

In an ideal world, we are completely free, we are an legitimate anarchy. But human civilization has ensured that not only is that inching impossible for survival, it is not what we want. We desire structure, some governance, leadership or example to give direction, some consensus. Because of our reliance on technology, we are bound to the structures built on past societies and human patterns. Society is built on contracts. But there comes an inflection point in every society where old paradigms begin to shift, citizens today realized they have outgrown some past archetypes, a new ideology starts making waves. Modern day humans have started to notice this transition phase.

The Blockchain, the Ether, is the digital truth; it is a history that cannot be muted, oppressed, or altered. In the Ethereum Blockchain, Data is stored, and the peer to peer system is partially anonymous to protect identity and personal data. A Smart Contract includes a peer-to-peer protocol, run by gas when ETH currency is injected, triggering event handlers and calls to encrypt and program data. A smart contract has a predetermined certainty and after consensus on the blockchain, there is immutability, the pure truth is stored in the entire state of the blockchain in unidirectional data flow mocking a fluc paradigm. In a big picture sense, a smart contract is a Social Contract.

When Social Contracts Become Smart Contracts

Today, we are too tightly coupled with the programmable internet, the version we know to be Web2. Platforms easily have power over us, and with the digital age, the social and socio-economic control they have over our livelihoods, it is dictatorship.

What is Web3?

Web3 is the what the internet infrastructure was meant to be, it is the true internet. It is a tokenized, decentralized network. Developers can become truly open source, uncensored, while peer-to-peer regulated. Peers can host each other’s content, and there is a symbiotic reliance on one another to prevent corruption. It’s government transparency and security. It’s true Democracy.

It is a complete data structural change. And because the underlying structure of the internet must change, it requires a Revolution.

Eliminating the Client-Server Model: Eliminating the Controller

With technologies like GraphQL that sit between the client and server, we no longer need the bare idea of having a middle man in data interactions, entities hold their own data, we are our own database, lookups are efficient with cryptographic hash, there is reduced latency, data loss, and we as entities become autonomous, and difficult to hack or shift(in a data sense and in a preprogramming sense).

Decentralized Apps, like decentralized versions of Facebook, VK, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, have been vigorously in development in the Ether Community. We are currently in a race to create the best versioning of decentralized media sites like Youtube, an arguably more organic version of Mainstream News, without shadow banning, censorship, or intermediaries, only #FACTS.

A peer-to-peer- regulated Application is needed for truthful voting, it prevents money from touching the ballot. It could also be great to follow the money when it comes to Politics, track donations from PACs, SuperPACS, and “secret donors” to see where money truly flows, and how media frames political parties, even to trace the trail of money for college admissions of the privileged and wealthy etc.

Most importantly, it de-censors the people from voicing their freedom of speech. Because whether we like them or not, blocking off someone from voicing their opinion because we disagree or have established a pre-conditioned bias is wrong, it is violating an inalienable right called expression. We should instead try to better understand the contexts, the environments we have lived and been conditioned in. Peer to peer network architectures is the way to help us better understand our fellow peers, without the proliferated mask the media likes to foster.

We Still Need Government- just a refined one

While this system is the true free market and reflects true Democracy, this is not to say we don’t have government at all. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations(DAOS) are used for unambiguous and ethical record keeping to help preserve the true state of the blockchain and to inhibit corruption. Symbolically, this is essentially what the government should be, to assist for special instances, glitches, and emergencies only. But these can also be everyday people, and don’t need to be glorified.

What have we all learned so far?

That the government, Red, Blue, Purple, or Rainbow is inefficient, and does not work long term when it is overly centralized. They say humans tend to repeat history, no matter how advanced, and someday we will destroy ourselves. I think we are better than that, because none of us are truly 100% human anymore. We need to start to think like machines, systematically, pragmatically, programmatically and not let our emotions give us bias, we need to stop acting so butt hurt about our feelings because the media thrives off of our country’s divide and controversy.

Furthermore, we need to work together. This is not to say we get rid of government, but more so to give the government a break from the politics and focus on the citizens. This is why we cannot have a government centered country that ironically inches toward communism — we also cannot have a completely unregulated Technology market that the government cannot handle. We need the balance, we need consensus. We need to live like we are on a blockchain, where we are not judged for our opinions or affiliations, partially anonymous when it comes to data privacy, where we work together.

The US. Cryptocurrent Bill

Amidst the crises, Senator Nathan Dahm proposed Bill 1430, a Cryptocurrency segment of the plan, a

“depository for virtual currency used by governmental agencies in this state… to partner with innovative technology, help develop next generation financial products, and safely grow unique technical and financial sector”

though brushed off as non-urgent, the progressive representative developed this idea based on survey from his home State, Oklahoma.

Later, Senator Brown, Ohio proposed in the 3rd US. Cares Act, a US Digital Dollar section

“Banking For All Act”

The idea involves a free digital bank account, to flare off the currencies created by Big Tech, such as Zuckerberg’s new currency, Libra Coin.

It’s sobering to realize that an entity like Facebook already owns us. It owns you, it still owns us to some extent, and the very idea that they are attempting to control currency by preventing ads by its digital competitors proves that the possibility should not be ruled out or taken lightly. It is a fiscal threat to society when currency is controlled by a corporation, but we are not very far off. Some say that Marx Zuckerberg is a liberal. But if you are being censored, monitored, and controlled by a liberal, would you actually feel liberated?

A search engine knows all of our fears, thoughts, consumer preferences, complements, substitutes, engagements, past history and can use that data to alter us: sometimes gradually , other times instantly. When we find out foreign companies, such as Zoom, are Made in China, well, we essentially become another one of their separation concerns.

The Red Ether

Yes, we garner this duality in the color red, to symbolize love but also anger; it symbolizes fire, energy, blood flowing through veins representing life and also death and bloodshed through war. Red is also what we recognize as Communism: censorship to the fullest extent. The duality of red is embodied into the Red Ether, it is omnipresent, widespread, yet also hidden in a vapor and mist; The Red Ether is awake. And it is something we can no longer ignore.

We must also remember that duality does not necessarily mean opposite; the opposite of love is not hate, but is indifference. And by indifference, I mean we cut China off as soon as possible from any trade agreement as soon as possible, and without a second glance. China is a country we can no longer trade with because it is a disillusioned central government we can no longer trust. Until we sue the shi* out of China for our economic reparations, until they cancel all American debt, while we move towards decentralizing the global economy and grow in transparency and security of our data, we cut off trade with China as much as possible and source within the United States. And to do this we need to come together as a united front.

A Concluding Note: The Red Shift

The Roaring 1920’s were remembered by Robber Barons, Tycoons in the Industrialization Age that have shaped our infrastructure to what we know of as today: the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Fords and the Vanderbilts. We are constantly reminded of the their big ego, centralist energy by the plethora of buildings and markings they have left behind in America with lack of oversight by neither government nor people. But what we have no history or recollection of is the people who worked under them, only a very truncated, corrupted version of truth as parties have shaped the information we can only gather through torchable textbooks. Currently, we are enabling the Big Tech Entities today to repeat this influence over us in the 2020’s by shaping our Digital Infrastructure and therefore, our reality and daily life. Their influence over us is what leads only to their affluence, and is accelerated by the current structure of centralized computer systems, existing data structures and network architectures: what we have known as Web2. Continuing along this chained timeline with no regulation or distribution of power within the systems will perpetuate the anti-pattern on the Constitutional Freedoms we were once born with. Riding on the current path is no different than to lie silent into submission as we drift down the assembly line we call Big Tech and pass through life without meaning or human value. The ones who are marking up history in real time will not be the Engineers, the Architects, the Designers, or the drivers of civilization but rather the animated figureheads and the figurines as they ruthlessly drive up their hostile takeovers. The lack of distribution against the machine in which we work for diminishes our very existence and we too become forgotten in history’s wake.

“If something in life appears to be free, then YOU ARE THE PRODUCT”

No amount of ‘philanthropy’ done by present day Robber Barrons should be written off for the uncompensated amount of data Big Tech companies have stripped from our identities and used to further market information back into users to inflate their financial and digital assets. It is time to take back control, of our data, of our lives, it is time to disperse into the Ether.

After all, as Americans, Revolution is in our nature, to venture out of comfort, to be a cutting edge example of modernization and to think ahead of tomorrow. So, we can do better. It is time we propel the Internet Revolution Of America on the Decentralized Blockchain, in a non-violent, but intellectual way; It is time for Web3: A New Internet: The Red Ether Project.

No more shadow bans, no more restrictions, and We The People own and access our data as entities, the modern human-machine interface.

Enter the New Digital Age of Web3, as we enter the Red Ether.