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Informed<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e89f78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e89f78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>The three worlds are differentiated by assumptions about trust.<\/b><\/h2><h3><b>Which one do <\/b><b><i>you<\/i><\/b><b> live in?<\/b><\/h3><h2><b>1. The Collegial Assumptions World<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The root word \u201ccollege\u201d is the tipoff. In most contexts a college is a secondary or post-secondary educational institution or a part of one. Additional meanings are given by The Cambridge Dictionary as \u201ca group of people with a particular job, purpose, duty, or power who are organized into a group for sharing ideas, making decisions, etc.\u201d It then defines\u201ccollegial\u201d as \u201crelating to a friendly relationship between colleagues.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phil Zimmermann\u2019s PGP builds the assumptions of the Collegial Assumptions world into a system with documented rules and standards. PGP is a perfect framework for the embodiment of collegial assumptions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collegials understand that personal accountability is an essential part of a working society, and that in a society whose structure is increasingly digital, identity reliability is at the core of accountability. People must be accountable for their words and actions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In PGP, identity is established in a beautifully collegial method. Individuals vouch for each others\u2019 claims of identity, and the more people from more collegial groups who say you are who you claim to be, the higher your identity reliability score. That collegial method works charmingly well for collegial groups.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then when PGP is exposed to the rest of the world, where people from the the third set of assumptions (which we will get to shortly) live, PGP falls flat. PGP is eminently corruptible when money and power enter the picture.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When real money is at stake, how difficult is it to gather a few larcenous non-collegials in order to corrupt PGP by vouching for each others\u2019 fake identities? To make the job easier, each participant can create dozens of fake identities and have them all join associations and clubs that lack membership controls. For good measure they\u2019ll use email addresses from a variety of easily penetrated domains.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That vulnerability never entered the view of the collegials, because, you know, our people don\u2019t behave like that. And our people don\u2019t care enough about money to let it jeopardize their relationships with other collegials. And, well, we maintain the boundaries of our collegial circles such that we tend not to mingle with people from outside those circles so we tend to not encounter, you know, greed and avarice. We invest our retirement savings with financial advisors who avoid the word \u201cfiduciary,\u201d in funds that obfuscate their fees, because their marketing makes them appear\u2026 you know\u2026 collegial. They&#8217;re one of us.<\/span><\/p><h3><b>Collegials and their authority allergy<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authority is craved by people with certain personality disorders (narcissism, megalomania, egocentrism, etc.) Authority provides that which those people lust after, which is power. When they do get that authority, thus power, it is so frequently misused that authority in general is distrusted by the collegials.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collegials themselves seem to have a low apparent appetite for power, although that appetite is sometimes present but is suppressed and denied because it contradicts collegial assumptions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PGP is one of countless manifestations of the effort to dispense with authority. It\u2019s a wonderful tool for collegial communities. It reinforces their denial of the existence of greed and avarice. And because their world purportedly excludes greed and avarice, they believe that decentralization serves as a viable replacement for authority.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if there were to be \u2013 this is hypothetical of course \u2013 such things as greed and avarice, then a firmer basis for accountability, and therefore identity, would be needed. If you and I are to believe that a person claiming to be Jennifer is really Jennifer, and that the real Jennifer is accountable not just to one counterparty in a blockchain transaction but rather to all those she deals with, then we need (gasp!) an authority that attests that this claim of \u201cJennifer\u201d to be the real Jennifer can be trusted.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Lawrence Lundy-Bryan notes,<\/span><\/p><h3><b>\u201cThere is no such thing as decentralized governance.\u201d<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A collegial group is a network of nice guys.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we know how nice guys finish \u2013 right?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They \u201ctrust, but verify.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note the emphasis: trust before verification. PGP and other collegial networks are for communities where trust is more or less assumed.<\/span><\/p><p><b>A Note About Nomenclature<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among members of the third group, which we&#8217;ll get to shortly, the word \u201ccollegials\u201d is replaced with the word \u201cmarks\u201d or \u201cchumps.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But first&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92c430b elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"92c430b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"#mailchimp\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Please Keep Me Informed<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-167e816 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"167e816\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f53534 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f53534\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>2. The Demosthetic Assumptions World<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70edb07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"70edb07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/cdmworlds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-14-at-8.22.32-AM-1024x482.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-61\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdmworlds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-14-at-8.22.32-AM-1024x482.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdmworlds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-14-at-8.22.32-AM-300x141.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdmworlds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-14-at-8.22.32-AM-768x362.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdmworlds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-14-at-8.22.32-AM.jpeg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-235eb1e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"235eb1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second world, based on the second set of assumptions, consists of people who heed the advice of Demosthenes&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p><b>&#8220;There is one safeguard which all sensible men possess by nature.<\/b><\/p><p><b>It is distrust.&#8221;<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They might also be called \u201cnice guys who have a chance of winning.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demosthenes is known as one of the ancient world\u2019s greatest orators. What is less known is the story of how he got to be so skilled at oratory.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years after his father\u2019s death, Demosthenes discovered that the managers of his father\u2019s large estate had stolen the bulk of it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the real world, Demosthenes. When serious money enters the picture, it turns out that those friendly collegial buddies of your dad\u2019s ain\u2019t quite as collegial as he thought!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Demosthenes embarked on a protracted study of law and rhetoric. Having honed his skills, he took the managers of his inheritance to court, and won (largely a Pyrrhic victory, as most of the money was gone.)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are living in an era where mafiistic assumptions are in ascendancy, largely because the collegials who are supposed to be watching the store were unwilling to see the bad parts of human nature and the threats they impose.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mafiistic assumptions aren\u2019t just about the old guys in The Godfather, but about Silibandia as well.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Silibandia embraces AI, prepare for something like the genocides that mankind has seen over the millennia, only borderless.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The demosthenics do not believe in decentralization and they do not believe that centralized authority is inherently bad. In fact they believe that centralized authority is essential, and for that reason it must be done carefully and done right.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authority must be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">engineered<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in such a way as to prevent the kinds of abuses that centralized authority has enabled in the past. 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The Mafiistic Assumptions World<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s always someone willing to cite Machiavelli as a source of moral authority &#8211; someone to legitimize theft and murder.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mafias care only about their own internal rules, as exemplified by La Cosa Nostra\u2019s requirements for becoming a \u201cmade man.\u201d For the rest of us, murder is not only illegal but way over the edge morally. For a mafia, it\u2019s simply a procedural necessity and has nothing to do with rules from outside the organization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideology is another point of distinction. Legitimate politicians tend to have sets of beliefs, particularly when it comes to economics.While the words\u201cconservative\u201d and\u201cliberal\u201d are regularly tossed around without a lot of definition, legitimate politicians tend to believe those words represent ends of a meaningful spectrum of beliefs, and they see themselves as advocates of policies based somewhere on that spectrum.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mafias will pretend to observe ideologies in their efforts to recruit chumps, but under the surface it is pure brutal power struggle. A mafia does not care about ideology.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hitler\u2019s Nazi party and Stalin\u2019s Communist party are purported to represent opposite ends of an ideological spectrum. In fact, their \u201cideologies\u201d were identical. Their \u201cset of beliefs\u201d starts and ends with \u201cI believe that I should have what is now in your possession.\u201d They were both mafiocracies.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Says your local crime boss:\u201cMy belief is that I should be in control of everything, capiche?\u201d You won\u2019t find him (is it ever her?) discussing the merits of parliamentary versus limited-term governance.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we debate, or rather fight over, politics and ideology, the world\u2019s richest mafioso is conquering us.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralization is important to the collegials as it enables them to pretend that authority, and therefore accountability, are unnecessary.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralization is important to the mafiistics because it provides built-in money laundering and other tools for criminal 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Authenticity\u2122?<\/h3><div class=\"authenticity-definition\"><p>The word &#8220;Authenticity\u2122&#8221; identifies a digital or physical space of &#8220;accountable anonymity&#8221; in which people enjoy both privacy for themselves and accountability from others.<\/p><\/div><p><strong>Authenticity\u2122<\/strong>\u00a0is the condition that exists in a space where there are<\/p><ul><li><strong>Digital Signatures Everywhere<\/strong>\u00a0backed by<\/li><li><strong>Measurably Reliable Identity Certificates<\/strong>\u00a0that are<\/li><li><strong>Owned by their Users<\/strong>\u00a0and which provide<\/li><li><strong>Privacy<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0<strong>Accountable Anonymity.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a class=\"learn-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taivideos.com\/quick-tour.html\">Learn about digital signatures and identity certificates in this short video \u2192<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c469784 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c469784\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc92948 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc92948\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>What is The Authenticity Alliance?<\/h3><h4>We are an Authenticity Growers Cooperative<\/h4><p>Similar to familiar agricultural cooperatives in the physical world, The Authenticity Alliance is a network of enterprises and individuals whose purpose is to &#8220;grow&#8221; Authenticity and bring it to the digital world.<\/p><p>Each Authenticity Enterprise\u2014that is, each Member Enterprise of the Alliance\u2014solves a particular inauthenticity problem in its chosen target market or audience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d806375 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d806375\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3224a5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3224a5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>What Does The Authenticity Alliance Do?<\/h3><p>The Alliance brings together independent enterprises that share a common mission: creating spaces of accountable anonymity where digital signatures, reliable identity certificates, and privacy protection work together to solve real-world inauthenticity problems.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8b831b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b8b831b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22fbe94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22fbe94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Who is the Authenticity Alliance?<\/h3><p>The Authenticity Alliance is comprised of two groups working together to promote trust and transparency across digital ecosystems.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Enterprises:<\/strong>\u00a0Authenticity Enterprises that provide Authenticity solutions for the\u00a0<em>inauthenticity pains<\/em>\u00a0in a specific market or industry.<\/li><li><strong>Individuals:<\/strong>\u00a0People who understand the problems of inauthenticity that plague the world&#8217;s information systems and who want to help implement and promote Authenticity\u2122 principles.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d22c61a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d22c61a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"enterprises-heading\">Authenticity Enterprises<\/h2><p>Each is an Enterprise Member of The Authenticity Alliance<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83a8059 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"83a8059\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e428c39 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e428c39\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c78c17b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c78c17b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Factory Enterprises<\/h4><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/attestation.pro\/\">Council of Attestation Officers, Inc.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authcap.com\/\">Authenticity Capital<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatisauthenticity.com\/\">Applied Authenticity<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genevaprivacy.com\/\">Geneva Privacy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a031258 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a031258\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-acf05fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"acf05fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Placeware Enterprises<\/h4><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abyx.com\/#\">Abyx Properties, Inc.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/verdicello.com\/\">Verdicello Homes<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/authentiverse.net\/flight\/\">Authentiverse<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd542b9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dd542b9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d19123 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d19123\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Solutions Enterprises<\/h4><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mail-slot.com\/\">Mail Slot, Inc.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taisites.com\/ACCOUNTABLE-BLOCKCHAIN\/accountable-blockchain.html\">Authentic Blockchain<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/authenticip.com\/\">AuthentiCIP<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authenticityinstitute.com\/our-customers.html\">Learn more \u2192<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0bb2b1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c0bb2b1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-743601e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"743601e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Community Enterprises<\/h4><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/global-villages.com\/\">Global Villages, Inc.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetchildprotection.org\/\">Internet Child Protection, Inc.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3446bef e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3446bef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf66eff e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bf66eff\" 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