Notes for future pieces

• The coming energy crunch
• The coming debt collapse

It is unsustainable.

• Use of oil
• Use of non-oil natural resources
• Inequality

It is unfair.

It is unjust.

It is unethical.

What happened to virtue?

How would you describe it / defend it to an alien?

We optimize for the wrong thing.

Wrong values.

Truth is not important.

The sociopaths rule.

The system favors sociopaths to advance.

Hopelessness for the next generation.

Bits move, atoms stay.

• Local food production.
• Local building materials.
• Local tool building.
• Shared recipes / code / blueprints / processes.

Township

• "Mixed industry", as there is no trade in atoms.

Governance

• No long-distance force projection.
• Community-based

Ethics

• As governance is local, ethics can be local, too.
• Community-policed