My fellow retards,
It’s childishly easy to trust the experts. The right degree, title and credentials can get you very far because most people would rather not dig too far into the actual value of the trappings.
In reality, imposters abound. Everyone out here is just a grown up child doing what they think will work, with varying degrees of self-confidence. Very few honest hierarchies exist. Most of what passes for status is an accumulation of feigned value compounded by social networks. Dumbasses graduate from top-tier schools every semester. To wit:
Everyone’s retarded in some way or another—doesn’t matter where you went to school, who you know, or how much deference you command from your peers—memento mori, motherfucker. Humans are all flawed—subject to bias and bamboozlement which require constant vigilance to fend off.
Phonon is about to enter a process that is dense and nigh unknowable to the average retard. There are depths to the Certificate Authority and cryptographic processes that are beyond ken to your humble deacon. Expertise here is essential, but following expert prescriptions blindly is potentially fatal.
The experts who are never wrong—the ones who only ever speak with certainty—they’re the most full of shit. The ones who can’t admit their own capacity for occasional fits of retard-dom are the most retarded. They’re the ones who will hang you out to dry without even meaning to, because they’re just so confident they’re mainlining some secret truth of the universe.
The sad truth is that phon/ongod does not know what to do here. It feels like the DAO has people it can trust to do the hard work and self-regulate their confidence with a realistic assessment of what they do and don’t know for sure. Your humble deacon will try to be one of those people always, and to admit the imperfections and vulnerabilities that might occasionally detract from the charisma and confidence that makes people follow along without their knowing for sure they should. It’s a hard line to walk, but the destination is worth the work.
A perfect version of Phonon is the goal.
phon/ongod out.