[governance] .V3 Saving the World and .NET from THE Big Lie Society

[Jim Fleming]

.V3 Saving the World and .NET from THE Big Lie Society

"The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure."

THE Big Lie Society is composed of 52 people who conspire to control network
resources and content for their personal gain. If one of the people dies,
there is always another person that has been groomed to take their position
in THE Big Lie Society. Their names, faces and history can easily be
documented on a deck of playing cards. They will do almost anything or pay
people to do anything to be part of that deck of cards.

HE Big Lie Society is able to control network resources and content partly
because of their collective agreement to all continue telling THE Big Lie.
THE Big Lie Society lives off of funding derived from their collective
actions, and therefore are self-sustaining and supported by the people and
communities they dominate.

THE Big Lie Society of course continues to promote the myth that THE Big Lie
Society is a benefit to the public. That is just one of the many Big Lies
repeated over and over by THE Big Lie Society.

For people not familiar with the long history of packet-based distributed
communication, it is hard to explain to them how 52 people could dominate an
industry for so many years without challenge or exposure. There are a
variety of reasons for that, one of the main reasons is that THE Big Lie
Society consists of people very skilled in preventing the general public
from dwelling on the facts and connecting the dots. Members of THE Big Lie
Society keep the population distracted and moving from one venue to another.
New people entering the scene can be run in circles for years and just when
they think they know the answers, THE Big Lie changes the questions or the
venue.

In order to attempt to understand THE Big Lie Society one can consider the
following scenario:

Imagine that a cruise ship with thousands of people is near an island and a
violent storm enters the area. Imagine they are all saved and their
lifeboats take them to the shores of the island, equally distributed around
all sides of the island. Imagine there is a large semi-active volcano
clearly visible from the beaches that ring the island. Imagine that the
people settle in and start building communities clustered around 8 beach
areas (N,S,E,W,NE,SE,SW,NW) that are separated from each other and from the
other side of the island by rocks and cliffs. Imagine that all of the
communities progress at the same pace and begin to move from basic survival
to long-term living arrangements.

Imagine that all 8 of the communities develop the same view that the other
people on their ship must have been lost at sea and they are the only
survivors. Imagine that they begin to convince themselves that there is no
reason to go searching for other people on the island because it is too much
work, and there are plenty of people to keep everyone active in each of the
8 communities.

Imagine as time goes on that people from each of the communities start to
wander away at night and climb the cliffs and build fires and study the
semi-active volcano in the center of the island. Imagine that they start to
see reflections of light from low-hanging clouds and also start to smell
other smoke before they even light their fires. Imagine they begin to wonder
if they really are the only people that survived the cruise ship disaster.
Imagine that some of the more scientific or technical start to note that the
odds are very good that people would be scattered all around the island
based on the weather patterns observed at the time of the ship's demise.
Imagine that these scientific type people begin to mention this in their
growing beach communities and find that there is little interest or in some
cases religious denials that any other people could be on the island.

Imagine as time goes on, most of the population begins to settle in. Life in
paradise satisfies all of their needs. Imagine that 52 people all around the
island begin thinking that it would be bad to have any more exploration of
the island because that could disrupt their local community.

Imagine those 52 people start patroling the center regions of the island at
night and begin making it difficult for others to build fires or to reach
those regions. Imagine that all sorts of lies begin to develop about the
dangers of the semi-active volcano and the need to confine one's life to the
area closer to the beach. Stability and security are claimed to be the
reasons for limited exploration.

Imagine that the 52 people spread around and grouped into 8 communities
begin to build layers and layers of what they call governance to allow them
to inhabit the center regions and to discourage any exploration. Imagine
that the people brought high-tech wireless devices with them as they escaped
from the ship. Imagine that they focus on getting them working and
connecting to the people in their small region of the island. Imagine while
this is going on the 52 people are taking their wireless devices into the
hills at night to test longer distance connections by reprogramming the
devices to increase the range. Imagine the 52 people begin contacting other
people and they are not sure if they are people down near the beach, people
on other sides of the island, or people who may have violated the rules and
climbed closer to the semi-active volcano.

Imagine that the 52 people begin lieing to the rest of their community that
they have any contact with people outside of the local community. Imagine
that some of the 52 really do not know who is part of their small little
group. Imagine that the 52 people just happen to all have similar
personality traits and lie about trying to suppress discussion about other
people on the island. Imagine that the 52 people begin working together to
make sure that unique IDs and unique names are enforced around the island.
Imagine that the people on the island do not question the authority of the
52 people because they just want the technology to work and are generally
not concerned about the rest of the island.

With people now communicating around the island, imagine those people
starting to become suspicious that there are, indeed, other people on the
island. At the same time, imagine that a passing boat off-shore also
contacts the people on the island, but they do not pay any attention to the
fact that the people are on a boat vs. land. Imagine that the people are
discouraged from contacting a wide range of people by the 52 people who lie
and make claims about network stability and security. Imagine the 52 people
continuing to spend more and more time in the central regions and imagine
they confirm that their group of 52 is dispersed around the island. Imagine
when challenged, those 52 people deny that there are other people on the
island and deny that they are in contact with the other 52 people on a
regular basis. Imagine the lack of suspicion on the part of the other people
because they never really see all 52 of the people at the same time in the
same place. Imagine the random passing boat also is not able to see all 52
people who are dispersed around the island in the central region, where many
people prefer not to go because of the semi-active volcano and the rules
constructed by the collection of the 52 people.

Imagine that a few brave people take the risk and begin to climb to the
higher regions and closer to the semi-active volcano. Imagine that those
people begin to observe the 52 people slipping away in the night, to
communicate with each other. Imagine that those people begin to report that
there are indeed other people dispersed around the island. Imagine the 52
people making claims that there are no other people on the island and
imagine the 52 adding more and more layers of what they call "governance" to
prevent people from finding out what is really going on. Imagine the 52
people discrediting the reports from those who climbed near the semi-active
volcano by claiming to be the only people allowed in that area and by
denying the group of 52 people exist.

Imagine the people baffled because they have no easy way to develop a
complete view of the island. Imagine the 52 people creating more and more
layers and structures that channel all communication via bottlenecks located
in the central regions, dominated by the 52 people.

Imagine more and more boats passing in the region. Imagine, people
experimenting with communications to those boats. Imagine the group of 52
people discouraging the communication with the boats claiming it is unstable
and a security risk. Imagine the people not only communicating with the
boats but also via the boats to other people around the island. Imagine that
less and less communication flows via the 52 people who continue trying to
dominate all communication on the island. Imagine some of the communication
now slipping thru to other people on the island via the people who risked
climbing up near the semi-active volcano. Imagine the people on the beaches
climbing up the rocks to link to other beaches around the island.

Imagine the 52 people claiming there is only one network and one way to
connect to other people. Imagine the people realizing that they do not need
the 52 insiders, in order to connect to other people. Imagine the people on
the boats providing a faster connection. Imagine the people who climbed to
the central regions being able to also provide faster connections along with
more reliable connections. Imagine the people communicating around the
island with other people by sending some traffic to the boats and some to
the central region. Imagine the 52 members of THE Big Lie Society running in
circles attempting to dupe people into thinking that their way is the only
way.

If you have read this far, have you already forgotten that all of the people
on the island came from the one original ship ? Have you forgotten that they
once may have been face to face with each other and now only contact each
other via links they have self-constructed ? Where were the 52 members of
THE Big Lie Society on that ship ? Did they always exist ? or, when placed
on the island and placed in positions to lie and benefit from controlling
the communications, did they self-select and create their cartel from
scratch ? How could thousands be duped by so few people ?

Have you also considered how the people could connect if they had no unique
addressing or naming ? Is it possible that they remember their names from
the ship ? Do they use their cabin numbers ? Are their wireless devices able
to take their names and make sure they are unique ? Do the 52 people step in
to control the unique addresses and names ? Do the 52 people do that and not
tell the others that they have also secretly coordinated with other people
around the island ? Do the 52 people start taxing the people to ensure that
the numbers and names are unique not only in the 8 local camps but also
around the island ? Why would people pay the 52 people to do that ? How many
lies would the 52 people be willing to tell to dupe the people into paying
for such a simple service ?

Once the people are re-united via telecommunications, what happens if they
start to work as a group and construct their own unique addressing and
naming ? Do they need the 52 people ? What lengths will the 52 people go to
make sure that people do not swim from one camp to another ? Will people
start to disappear as the 52 people communicate around the island and
attempt to prevent the people from being re-united ?

What happens if one or more of the 8 camps ends up with none of the 52
people ? Will 52 people emerge in that one camp and produce a clone of THE
Big Lie Society? What if someone eventually travels to another part of the
island and discovers that the clone of THE Big Lie Society is worse than the
original monster that dominated the central region near the semi-active
volcano ?

At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of
their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however,
complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts
for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but
their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of
hunting.
When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice, to
their horror, that the signal fire-which had been the hunters'
responsibility to maintain-has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack, but
the hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem
gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance.
Piggy criticizes Jack, who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch
shell and reprimands the boys in a speech intended to restore order. At the
meeting, it quickly becomes clear that some of the boys have started to
become afraid. The littlest boys, known as "littluns," have been troubled by
nightmares from the beginning, and more and more boys now believe that there
is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island. The older boys try
to convince the others at the meeting to think rationally, asking where such
a monster could possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns
suggests that it hides in the sea-a proposition that terrifies the entire
group.

In the last installment, a scenario was illustrated where a cruise ship with
4800 people
breaks up in a storm into 8 sections and 8 communities form around an island
with
large barriers separating each of the communities. THE Big Lie Society, via
their
political and technical skills work to contact all of the other communities
and conspire
to keep the other 800 people in the dark on what is really going on around
the entire
island.

The 52 people are dispersed around the 8 communities and move back and
forth between the communities under the cloak of darkness and a never ending
string
of lies. On average, there are always 6 or 7 people on guard in each of the
8 communities
ready to suppress any attempts by others to communicate and also ready to
conspire
with the other members of THE Big Lie Society about ways to keep the people
in the
dark while continuing to strengthen their grip on all information that flows
in each
community and around the island. [One of the big lies is of course that
information does
not flow around the island because there are no other people on the other
side of the
island and each community of 800 people is lead to believe they are the only
survivors.]

Because of a lack of education, and because of an apathetic willingness to
accept life in
their new found paradise, the vast majority of people pay little attention
to THE Big Lie
Society and are happy to communicate only with the 800 people in their wedge
of the
island. In one of the 8 communities, the people gravitate to connecting
their LANs and
playing video games via system-link connections. Their view of the .NET is a
game. In
another one of the 8 communities, the people gravitate to simple text
message services
and have no interest in video games. Their view of the .NET is a hand-held
text message
device. In one of the other 8 communities the people develop music skills
and exchange
digital music. In another one of the 8 communities people quietly focus on
digital images
and exchange photos.

In all of the 8 communities, the base systems are mostly the same. Ones and
zeroes are
used in binary patterns to store and transmit messages. Operating systems,
kernels and
device drivers are fundamental building blocks. Because the people are
operating at high
levels of satisfaction with their applications (games, text messages, music
and photos) they
do not develop the skills to understand how the systems really work. THE Big
Lie Society
of course works very hard to not only discourage those skills but also to
discourage any
changes in the base systems. In each of the 8 communities, THE Big Lie
Society makes
sure that it has 2 of their 6 guarding the protocols, 2 of their 6 guarding
the addressing,
and 2 of their 6 guarding the naming and 1 person floating and helping to
distract and
confuse the population.

Because of their lack of interest and knowledge in the base technology, the
800 people
become the prey of THE Big Lie Society. Because the base technology rarely
changes
and because of the almost total control of THE Big Lie Society, there is
very little for the
52 people to do. They of course continue to circulate in each of the 8
communities and
around the island and stand guard watching for any threats that may come
from the
dumbed-down population of 800 people. The 52 people also of course
constantly recruit
for new potential members in case one of their insiders dies or disappears
from the island.

One of the major tools used by THE Big Lie Society is their ability to
shuffle people without
changing the fundamental lies they promote. That keeps the 800 people locked
into the
lies and allows the 52 members to move freely around the island.
Institutions are formed
to house and perpetuate the big lies. The 52 people just claim to be the
caretakers of those
institutions. They claim they are stewards. The institutions are totally
artificial. They were not
there when the people were washed ashore on the island. The institutions
become bastions
of bureaucracy. As the institutions grow and tax the people, the people have
less and less
ability to influence the bureaucracies, and the level of corruption
tolerated to protect the
institutions rises.

As various disruptions occur, THE Big Lie Society of course has to adapt and
tell new
lies and hope that the people forget the old lies. As one example, when
ships appear on the
horizon and send the occasional message, THE Big Lie Society has to explain
it away
as a fluke, a kook or glitch and direct the people's attention to their
island paradise. A
social event can draw people away from the shoreline and the messages from
the ship.
If the messages from the ships increase, then THE Big Lie Society of course
has to step in
and insert themselves in the communication channel and present the ship with
one view and
the people with another view.

As another example, if the people start to hear that there are other people
on the island,
THE Big Lie Society has to remain one step ahead and control any
communication around
the island. The people may completely forget as time goes on that at one
point THE Big
Lie Society claimed there were no other people. At another point, THE Big
Lie Society
claimed there were people but security and stability made it risky to
communicate with
those people. The people are always pulled back to the party-line that THE
Big Lie Society
looks out for their interests and that without THE Big Lie Society
communication and
the artificial institutions would cease to function. The people are of
course distracted from
the fact that the artificial institutions exist primarily to fund and
support THE Big Lie Society
who conspire to divide, distract and deceive the people who lack the
resources to put the
entire puzzle together and develop a birds-eye view of the entire island.

 Ralph hides for the rest of the night and the following day, while the
others hunt him like an animal. Jack has the other boys ignite the forest in
order to smoke Ralph out of his hiding place. Ralph stays in the forest,
where he discovers and destroys the sow's head, but eventually, he is forced
out onto the beach, where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill
him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a British
naval officer standing over him. The officer's ship noticed the fire raging
in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at
the sight of the officer. Amazed at the spectacle of this group of
bloodthirsty, savage children, the officer asks Ralph to explain. Ralph is
overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is safe but, thinking about what has
happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as
well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their
composure.

THE Big Lie Society is composed of 52 people who conspire to control network
resources and content for their personal gain. If one of the people dies,
there is always another person that has been groomed to take their position
in THE Big Lie Society. Their names, faces and history can easily be
documented on a deck of playing cards. They will do almost anything or pay
people to do anything to be part of that deck of cards.

Ralph hides for the rest of the night and the following day, while the
others hunt him like an animal. Jack has the other boys ignite the forest in
order to smoke Ralph out of his hiding place. Ralph stays in the forest,
where he discovers and destroys the sow's head, but eventually, he is forced
out onto the beach, where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill
him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a British
naval officer standing over him. The officer's ship noticed the fire raging
in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at
the sight of the officer. Amazed at the spectacle of this group of
bloodthirsty, savage children, the officer asks Ralph to explain. Ralph is
overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is safe but, thinking about what has
happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as
well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their
composure.


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