13: National Politics & The Role of Curiosity in DAO’s // Citizens Series #5 – Filiblaster
Background:
Today on our CityDAO Citizen’s Series, we have Filiblaster, one of the recently elected CityDAO council members. He is an active CityDAO community member who is also involved in the political realm. In this interview, Eric and Filiblaster talk about national politics, operating a DAO within the existing legal framework or outside of it, national states in contrast to anarchy, and the role of curiosity within a DAO and how it plays out. This episode is full of brilliant ideas and visions about CityDAO and it also has some discussions and debates regarding contrasting views.
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Time-Stamped Show Notes:
- 1:09 Eric provides a little background regarding some of the recent activities within CityDAO.
- 2:26 Filiblaster is extremely excited to see what’s the next step for CityDAO. He is also working in politics as a local campaign member for a candidate in DC.
- 4:07 For Filiblaster, he thinks having balance is more favorable now than achieving full decentralization.
- 6:28 Filiblaster explains what a guild is all about.
- 7:14 Some of the guilds formed in CityDAO are related to public affairs, operations, legal, finance, design, development, real estate, media, and many more. Filiblaster believes that some of them have a budget.
- 9:08 For the first two weeks of being a volunteer council member of CityDAO, there were a lot of meetings and Filiblaster describes it as organized chaos.
- 10:11 Filiblaster’s day job is managing a local campaign for the DC council.
- 11:35 Being interested in Web3, Filiblaster became fascinated with DAOs and the idea of cooperatives.
- 14:52 A real physical city having a DAO governance in the United States is a long-term vision according to Filiblaster.
- 18:53 Eric talks about the decline of public trust in the US government.
- 20:45 When Filiblaster says that national politics are dead, he means that there is no coherent trusted narrative anymore.
- 25:45 Eric introduces the topic of operating a DAO within our existing legal framework, which he describes as a gray area.
- 27:21 Filiblaster provides his own insight on DAOs operating within the current legal framework.
- 29:58 In the subject of capitalism, communism, and China, Filiblaster and Eric have a little bit of a debate and discussion.
- 34:36 According to Eric, he believes that he and Filiblaster both agree that better is possible.
- 37:01 Some of the things that Eric says in this podcast really resonates with Filiblaster.
- 39:40 This type of idea drew Filiblaster to CityDAO.
- 41:29 Filiblaster discusses his views on anarchism and nation states.
- 44:32 Having a sliver of CityDAO wherever you go is part of Filiblaster’s vision and dream for CityDAO.
- 45:55 Infinite games are what life is all about for Filiblaster.
Key Points from the Interview:
- “Don’t build wealth for one owner but build wealth for the community. So that’s a lot where my politics lies and that’s why I love DAO’s in general.”
- “Joy as being not just happiness but what’s possible together. What can we do together. And I think that for me, that idea is what draws me to politics, that’s what draws me into DAOs.”
