I had a brief read. Very interesting. I feel your pain.

My powerlessness galls me almost as badly as my impotence.

I have noticed that every single major protest, violent or peaceful, always pivots to direct digital democratic representation. Relative power imbalance is without doubt the root cause and devolving that relative power to the individual is the first and only hurdle.

I ran for local government with an online digital platform to allow users to vote directly. I wasn't legally allowed to promise to pay constituents a civic dividend from my stipend for participation under electoral law. I got less than 1% of 1% of the vote. And the major parties only didn't bother to sue me for breach of electoral law, like they do each other, because I wasn't a credible threat.

I'm paying to get a digital currency developed that tries to build choice into the type of currency you accept. The networks of people you choose to contract with. But it's difficult to see it taking off. It doesn't help individuals get directly rich or relatively powerful like tribalism, bitcoin or outrage culture. But if I act as if, at least I can say I tried.

I have come to recognise that competition and monkey dominance are forms of violence that are hard wired into our brains reward system.

We see the world as zero sum, because when we win a fight it gets our monkey high. And so, society becomes what we make it. Like churches to an abrahamic god, our hallucinations fashion our reality.

But the world actually succeeds when we cooperate in an infinite game. And I think sometimes that maybe the human species is approaching some density of global networking that might allow our epileptic species level internet brain to spontaneously organise into an executive function.

But mostly I feel discouraged and wish more people would join my tribe and vest me with me relative power.