symiliptic report
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Symiliptic report tober 28
The many discussions and thoughts that went into creating the sixth republic often involved citizenship. Many of us had concluded that it was citizenship that most contributed to the fall of the fourth republic. The idea of citizenship, and how it was assumed to be a thing that was conferred either by birth or by Continue reading
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Symiliptic report sember 28
In my previous report from here in the sixth republic I mentioned the advantages we have in having additional data unknown to any of the previous republics. We have another advantage as well. The first republic was informed by the thinkers and philosophers available to them, from antiquity up to Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke. In Continue reading
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Symiliptic report Sember 7
In creating the sixth republic, we have an advantage the founders of the first and the reformers of the fourth lacked: we have more collected data about methods and processes of governing and their outcomes. We have more tools to analyze the data as well, and other, better-functioning societies to be emulated. In addition to Continue reading
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Symiliptic report August 30
Building the Sixth Republic Creating the sixth republic out of some of the fragments of the fourth and the fifth is a generational project. Like the first republic, we tried to avoid the characteristics of society that resulted in the former problems. For us, that meant the many problems that were present even at the Continue reading
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Symiliptic Report Aigust 23
I was thinking this morning about how the fourth republic fell, and how the real world people finally decided to be done with the scum once and for all. And not a single shot was fired. it was all done with social media, which the scum have always been surprisingly compliant with. Suggest (or “influence,” Continue reading
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symiliptic report Aigust 9
The sixth republic is quite young still, and many things are still settling out. How to keep the scum happy and engaged, and on a path out of their scummy swamp is a major topic of concern and debate among the real world people. After they managed, almost accidentally, to dissolve the fourth republic, and Continue reading
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Symiliptic report Aigust 4
The scum rely, or sometimes seem to, on the real world people. This is because the scum exist, as do the rest of us, in the real world. But the scum do not, of course, acknowledge very much of the real world. If it were worth our time and attention, we might investigate whether it’s Continue reading
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The symiliptic report Aigust 3
The back yard was active today, so I had to leave Cypher in the house where it was safe. I ventured out with a jug of tea and some earthenware cups for whoever (or whatever) might be waiting. It’s always a good idea to bring some sort of offering when the chimes are tinkling on Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.