The Fuddness unto Death
November 20, 2024
There are many ways to characterize the internal division of 3D2A. Yesterday I spoke of ontologization and how “the community” chose to cope with federal and state controls.
As they began to accumulate indictable felonies, The Gatalog’s means simply became its ends: Disavowal of the law, of property, of Anarchy and even Open Source software. The grift became an intentional scam, which became an organized racket. Which became a thirst for annihilation.
Over the last three years we’ve been accused of a fraud on the public. Turns out The Gatalog was advertising its own bad conscience. Whether this bad conscience was pawned off as based socialism or social anarchism, it was always a scam, and it was always gun control.
The Fuddbuster’s internal reading of 3D2A politics led to a dual game and reversible positions. “Decentralized” meant bureaucracy. “Gunsmith” was a term of instrumental discourse borrowed from managers and white-collar engineers. “License” meant protecting the creator instead of protecting the file. This tactical ambiguity allowed profile-neurotics to make common cause with a typical Young Republican whose only “intellectual property” is his violent self-pity.
And DEFCAD paid for it. The good news is Open Source software will survive The Gatalog. But the bad news is 3D2A suffers from a psychological, not a political problem.
A common enemy supports a common identity. The Gatalog’s anxious retreat to statist metaphysics has solidified my image as 3D2A’s primal father; a too-powerful and capricious Other beyond the ambit of law and with access to unlimited enjoyment. This is a standard Freudian myth of social formation: We must castrate the unlimited Other to survive.
And so the magical solution of Copyright. At the final hour we are saved by the constitution of the belief that maybe IP is real. Maybe we, too, can possess it.
As a companion to my Black Flag White Paper, which will soon get the serious reading it deserves, today I publish a critique of this gospel. It’s full of cool lore drops, like finally revealing who killed JStark. And it will probably live as an evergreen resource for specialists. Though it borders on the philosophical, in the sense that the original philosophical question is a critique of religion, I’d rather you see it as a bill of indictment. Or maybe an epilogue.
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