In my Abstraverse whitepaper (here) I hint at this idea called ‘culture daos’. The main thesis is that we have an opportunity to create a digital melting pot of cultures in the new cryptographically powered internet. And if we choose to pass on the opportunity, conglomerates will come in and decide what is ‘cool’ all over again (think about the last time you saw a funny comedy movie or how the media outlets have covered FTX).
There is this weird term I’ve heard for a little while - ‘culture war’. I’m not too familiar with what it’s suppose to allude to beyond the corpo-politico red v blue game in the west. But it’s idiotic on so many levels. Another idiotic take is that people are ‘vultures’ for taking pleasure in assimilating other cultures into their reality (obviously don’t be a dick about it).
As the sonic wizard Macroblank so eloquently put it… “everything is plundered.”
How it ties in
So DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations)… they’re all the rave. For good reason I might add. They provide:
- more equitable stake for participation
- less authoritarian suppression
- network effects if built properly
- new ways of employment
- refreshed thought modalities on governance and commercial organizations
But the reality (at time of writing) is that the incentive structures in place are either nonexistent or short lived (excluding NounsDAO). People have short attention spans and how excited do we expect them to remain when proposals are about things they don’t care about, and they lack the resources to get their own ideas through?
Which is why I feel ‘culture’ is a great place to take some new swings on this model. For the purposes of this context let’s define culture as
transferrable sensory data, of which receiving and sharing participants both experience a novelty of transfer
A curt way of putting it would be… content. We’re talking about a content DAO, at least for now.
Who gives a fuck?
Honestly, I’m not sure. That’s the point of the experiment. After all, that’s what every DAO currently is until they reach escape velocity.
I believe people would be interested for a few reasons:
- YouTube
- Substack
- Books
- Television & Film
- Comedy
- The Internet
It’s all content. It’s all a vehicle for culture.
What I’m interested in, and believe others to be as well, is the ‘good stuff’. I’m always looking for the content that makes me laugh, smarter, more informed on the ‘facts’, relieved, curious, stronger, healthier, & just a better off individual for it. Seems pretty commonplace for most consumers I’d imagine.
Why not create a DAO that incentivize the curation of such high value culture? Why not create something that’s cool to be part of and simultaneously helps you and your fellow digital neighbor out? Why not build something that is the embodiment of the quote “signal in a world full of noise?”
At least why not give it a shot?