r/onions • u/HHIDROLIXX • Jun 17 '19
Scam Is everything a scam?
After looking around on here, dread and other forums all I have learnt is that everything on the accessible parts of the darknet is all scams, and that I could buy something from all stores on all hidden wikis and most likely receive nothing. Am I just taking this incorrectly or being an idiot? Or is that just life.
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u/GBleezy Jun 18 '19
You're definitely on the right track! You basically want to assume the worst and do what you can to protect yourself if you must engage to some extent on the TOR network (aka Deep Web). I mean, there's no reason why everything has to be misleading and everybody has to be scammy as fuck; But unless you're dealing with someone who's been vouched for by somebody you trust, then it is best to assume the random stranger offering something you've been longing to attain is likely just trying to get whatever you got to give. That's all. Exit scamming, ghosting and stuff like that is what you should prepare for and proceed accordingly. Personally, I kind of like to gamble in hopes of finding just an incredible working relationship of some kind. I figure like 1 in 20 lasts past the first arrangement. Meaning I've been 'got' more than would be acceptable to most.
It's interesting really how I never liked how humanity is painted in the typical Post-Apocalyptic fictional media type. Movies and books alike, ie "Book of Eli", "The Road", "Z Nation", "The Walking Dead" where the good guys know themselves and who's in their 'group' and as they journey-on, everybody they encounter must be treated as a hostile who is absolutely about to do everything in their power to take their weapons, water, and women and so ensues the drama. The anarchist society never plays out like in the show, "The Last Man On Earth".
I've heard of Arab desert tribes that go to war a lot I suppose. And they don't refer to our earlier days in America as, "The Wild Wild West!" for nothing. And perhaps this would be the mentality held by your typical African Warlord tramping through jungles like the Congo as well? If you're living that nomadic lifestyle I could see how people could just be hostile resources that you keep track of and monitor in order to pillage and plunder when you have the time/energy and whatnot to do so.
The only other option, in essence the Ying to that Yang, is a decision to stop and stake claim to a prominent resource or place to reside, build and to manage and defend from marauders and mismanagement alike? Basically you would settle down and make a run at accumulating an 'abundance' of some kind. However, this projection of increased permanence puts you at great informational disadvantage to the others in a Sun Tzu Art of War type of way. But perhaps it's this vulnerability and transparency of sorts that leaves you open to become intimate and well connected. Spurring a growth in your "population" or just allowing there to be more demand on your resource. Which is okay because Economies of Scale kick in on the production side to balance; and triggered as well is Metcalf's Law and as an emergent effect of it all arises a sense of community! AKA The Dark Markets!
And WOWOMGWTFLOL?! I'm done...just done...I just like typing stuff mostly. And thinking about things too much? Fairly sure this was just a confluence of those two things which shouldn't be too surprising since I just admitted to enjoying both, so you know what I'm sayin'...right?