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« on: February 11, 2024, 01:00:48 PM »

I am a member (have attended meetups and such) of an organization whose ideology is that people with common values, particularly ideological or religious values, should use DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) to coordinate moving to particular cities, then lobby those cities to officially use a currency issued by that DAO, and then control those cities through monetary policy.* People involved in the movement have a wide array of ideologies they want to see promoted (including some far-left ones; transgender people are very overrepresented), but it is most commonly some flavor of far-right. (Let a thousand Zionisms bloom!)

I think advocating for crypto kind of obviously means having a very materialist view (you probably think making lots of money is good, to care deeply about what the money should be), but less obviously it has a streak which is anti-majoritarian ('we can create our own society which will influence everyone, regardless of how people vote') and a streak which is strongly utopian, and in the 21st century utopian worldviews are much more common on the far-right than the far-left.

A global meetup of organizations at least sort of in alignment with this vision was held in Amsterdam last year; there is a lot of diversity on specifics because the whole point is that this is meant to promote all ideologies, but you get some common themes.

*Not everyone would endorse every detail of that, and you could simplify it to 'people should organize themselves to create new strongly ideological societies', but most of the suggestions for those societies would involve cryptocurrency or blockchain in some way as part of the governing mechanism.
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