BM新作: 在不自由的世界中如何找到自由(中英对照，第三部分)
春节期间，BM发布新文章，论述他对于如何寻求自由的看法，核心观点在于，降低依赖性，发展本地化解决方案，从而增加个人自由。自由代价高昂，不过，所能实现的潜在生活质量是无价的。
文章较长，分为三篇发出，列出中英文对照，先中后英，供各位读者参考。由于另有安排，导致BM这篇译文中断，第三部分今天才发出来。还请见谅。
此为第三部分。
前面部分，见：
原文链接: https://medium.com/@bytemaster/how-to-find-freedom-in-a-unfree-world-59a416a0e8e0
作者: Dan Larimer
译者: 荆凯(EOS42)
EOS Cannon也翻译了一个版本，可以参考: Dan新文：如何在一个不自由的世界中找到自由
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减少对单一来源产品服务的依赖
将自由定义为独立行动或简单地说“不”或“选择退出”的能力，如果你关心自己的自由，那么你应该努力确保你的食物、住所、衣服和社交网络能够免于对外部对依赖。使用手机没问题，只要你仍然保有离开手机也能够快乐生活的能力即可。购买非本地生产的耐用品也没问题，只要他们足够耐用，数量够多，若耐用品不再供应，你有足够的时间适应和转换。
也许你应该尝试一下，看看你离开特定的商品或服务还能生活多久。如果没有周期性的远离科技，你或许不会意识到你的生活对于它们是多么依赖。
我们创建了基于即时存货管理、流媒体娱乐和即时通讯的文化。若我们的自由依赖于它们的持续运行，那么，这些优化都削减了我们的自由。我们对这些服务的依赖越重，我们在市场上和与政府谈判时的优势就越少。
货币或许是我们所依赖的最基础的事物之一。几乎一般交易都是货币交易。但凡可能，我们应该设法发行自己的货币，或者使用本地货币，或者用金银来交换。任何时候我们用非本地货币，意味着我们交换自己的自由，转到了非本地的金融系统。如果这一外部金融系统决议封禁我们，我们就丧失了与邻国贸易的渠道。
不存在完美的解决方案，但是，但凡可能，我们应当支持本地公司，也支持其他的本地公司。使用本地货币进行本地交易，我们增加了自己的本地自治性。
创建去中心化的在线社群似乎是一种不错的方式，能够将世界上有着相似观念的人们组织在一起；然而不幸的是，在一个大型技术公司随时可以切断通讯自由的世界中，这些社群和其中的个体无法存活。
你是否会以自由交换安适？
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有个故事，讲的是一个男人打猎抓野鸭来养活家人的故事。他带着短枪来到池塘，悄悄靠近野鸭。够走运的话，他能在野鸭飞走前射中一只。如果不走运，野鸭会听到他靠近的声音，他还没来得及开枪，鸭子们就飞光了。
费了老半天劲，只为了抓只鸭子，这让他疲惫不堪。所以，他找到了一些面包，然后开始喂鸭子。渐渐地它们开始信任他，忘记了自己捕食的能力。
一段时间后，他就可以走近任何一只鸭子抓回家做成晚餐了。
每一次我们选择享受免费面包而非自己寻找食物，我们都冒着成为呆鸭子的危险。若我们依赖性更强，变得越肥，在政府前来猎捕之时，想要飞走就变得越难。
因此，每一天我们都面临着选择，自己或者以小社群的方式寻找食物，增加我们的长期自由，或者，接受免费的面包，增加短期的安适。
对一些人来说，一年里不需自己寻找食物，每天都得到免费的面包，然后随之而来立即死掉，这种生活，比起来为自由而终生挣扎要更好。有些人会为了一时之快而吸食毒品，全然不顾生活因此被毁灭。
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没有人是孤岛，我们今日的富裕生活，源自我们与社会其他部分的共同依赖。关键在于，对于依赖性渐强的任何产品，要确保我们能够获得有效的、不受限制的竞争来源，供应类似的商品和服务。若我们让自己变得依赖一小部分资源，我们将会被奴役。
这是政府和Google， Facebook这样的公司所学到的经验。如果在饮食、住所、交通、电力、通讯和医疗等方面，他们能够以政府强制的方式实现垄断，他们就能够提出任何要求，使绝大多数人臣服。
现状会被破坏，你的生活所依赖的服务会被中断，这一代价太高。而且，作为消费者的你，从此丧失了服务的选择权。
想要健康食物？很糟糕，你只能得到消毒的类食物的物体。
想要轻便的柴油车？很不幸，你只能得到昂贵的电动汽车。
想要不受审查的互联网，对不起，没有。
想要在线购物而不被追踪？没门。
这并非只是免于腐败的自由，而是事关对于自然和市场环境的适应性。
太阳耀斑爆发会摧毁全球电力系统，造成大范围饥荒。若地震发生在某些要害地区，会摧毁许多重要的工厂。一种新的真菌的产生，会杀死大量的单产作物。
如果所有人都对任何单个地区所生产的商品服务产生依赖，那么，所有人都易遭受局部破坏的影响。
生活中你需要什么？
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马斯洛需求层次理论认为，我们需要基本的食物/住所/衣服，然后是安全/保障，然后是爱/归属感，最后是自尊和自我实现。在我看来，许多现代科技都是一种干扰，并不能让人走向自我实现。似乎我们一直都把生活建立在低质量食物的基础之上，这导致了糟糕的健康状况，我们的友谊也变得数字化和脱节。
享受生活的首要条件是拥有健康。这来自于拥有良好、清洁、营养丰富的食物和一个干净、温暖的居所，以及健康的社区。对大多数人来说，一个高质量的本地社交网络，结合本地生产的食物、住所和衣服，与依靠食品券和政府保障房生活的数字社交网络相比，生活会更幸福。
自由的成本高昂，但是，所能实现的潜在生活质量是无价的。
真正的去中心化，需要本地化解决方案，而非全球网络。
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以下为英文原文。
Minimize Dependency on Single-Source Products & Services
If you care about your freedom, defined as ability to act independently or simply say “no” or “opt out”, then you should endeavor to ensure that your food, shelter, clothing, and social network are resilient to external dependencies. It is OK to have a cell phone, so long as you retain the ability to live a happy life without it. It is OK to buy durable goods that are not produced locally so long as they are durable and redundant enough to give you time to adapt if the durable good is no longer available.
Perhaps you should attempt a dry-run, see how long you can live without a particular good or service. If you don’t periodically fast from technology then you will not realize how your life has become critically dependent upon its presence.
We have created a culture based upon just-in-time inventory management, streaming entertainment, and instant communication. Each of these optimizations reduces our freedom if our freedom comes to depend upon its ongoing operation. The more dependent we become on these services, the less negotiation power we have in the market and with our governments.
Money is perhaps one of the most fundamental things upon which we depend. It is half of almost every transaction. Wherever possible we should seek to issue our own currency, or use a local currency, or barter with gold and silver. Anytime we use a non-local currency we transfer our freedom to a non-local financial system. If this non-local financial system decides to cut us off, then we have lost our means of trading with our neighbors.
There is no perfect solution, but where-ever possible we should attempt to support local businesses that also support other local businesses. By trading locally using local currencies we increase our local autonomy.
Building distributed online communities seems like an appealing way to organize like-minded people around the world; unfortunately, these communities and the individuals within them are unable to survive in a world where the major technology companies are coerced to crack down on freedom of communication.
Will you Trade Freedom for Comfort?
There is a story of a man who tried to hunt wild ducks to feed his family. He would go to the local pond with his shotgun and attempt to sneak up on the ducks. If he was lucky he would get one shot before the ducks flew away. If he was unlucky the ducks would hear him coming and fly away before he could get a shot off.
After a while he got tired of the amount of work required to catch a single bird so he found some bread and started feeding the birds. The birds gradually came to trust the man and forgot how to forage on their own. In time the man could walk up to any duck, grab it, and take it home for dinner.
Every time we choose the convenience of the free bread over foraging for ourselves we risk becoming sitting ducks. The more dependent we become, the fatter we get, the harder it is for us to fly away when the government comes for its pound of flesh.
So each day we have a choice, forage on our own (or with a small community) and increase our long-term freedom, or accept the free bread and increase our short-term comfort. For some people, a year of daily bread followed by quick death is better than a life time struggle for freedom. Some people choose to do drugs for the quick high, even if it destroys their life.
No man is an island, the abundance we experience today is a result of our co-dependence on the rest of society. The key is to make sure that for any product we come to depend upon that we have effectively limitless competitive sources of similar goods and services. If we allow ourselves to become dependent a small number of sources we become enslaved.
This is what companies like Google, Facebook, and the Government have learned. If they can get a government enforced monopoly on food, water, shelter, transportation, electricity, communication and health care then they can demand anything and get obedience from almost everyone. The cost of rocking the boat and getting cut off from the services your life depends upon is too high. Furthermore, you, the consumer, are no longer in charge of the services offered. Want healthy food? Too bad, you get a steril-food-like-substance. Want a light weight diesel car, too bad, you get an expensive electric car. Want uncensored internet, sorry. Want to shop online without being tracked, you are out of luck.
It isn’t just about freedom from corruption, it is also about resilience against nature and market conditions. A solar flare could disrupt global power systems and lead to mass starvation. A poorly placed earth quake could destroy critical factories. A new fungus could kill the vast mono-crops. If all of humanity comes to depend upon goods and services produced in any single region, then all of humanity becomes vulnerable to a localized disruption.
What do you need in life?
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs says that we require basic food/shelter/clothing followed by safety/security, followed by love/belonging, followed by self-esteem and self-actualization. It seems to me that much of modern technology is a distraction that does not build one up toward self-actualization. It seems that we have been building our lives on top of low-quality food, which leads to poor health, and our friendships have become digital and disconnected.
The number one requirement for an enjoyable life is your health. This comes from having good, clean, nutrient rich food and a clean, warm place to live with a healthy community. For most people, a quality local social network, combined with locally produced food, shelter, and clothing will provide a much happier life than a digital social network living on food stamps and government housing.
The price of freedom is high, but the potential quality of life realized is priceless.
True decentralization requires local solutions, not global networks.
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