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TROM
{ WIP, still being researched. Was trying to reach the Tio guy but he
didn't respond. ~drummyfish }
TROM (The Reality Of Me) is a project running since 2011 that's
educating mainly about the harmfulness of
trade-based society and tries to show a better way: that of establishing
so called trade-free (in the sense of
WITHOUT trade) society. It is similar to e.g. Venus Project (with which TROM collaborated
for a while), the Zeitgeist Movement
and our own LRS -- it shares the
common core of opposing money and trade as a basis of society (which
they correctly identify as the core issue), even though it differs in
some details that we (LRS) don't see as wholly insignificant. The
project website is at https://www.tromsite.com/.
TROM was started and is run by a Romanian guy called Tio (born June
12 1988, according to blog), he has a personal blog at
https://www.tiotrom.com and now lives mostly in Spain. The project seems
more or less run just by him.
The project is funded through Patreon and
has created a very impressive volume of very good quality educational
materials including books, documentaries, memes, even its own GNU/Linux distro (Tromjaro). The
materials TROM creates sometimes educate about general topics (e.g.
language), not just those directly related to trade-free society -- Tio
says that he simply likes to learn all about the world and then share
his knowledge.
The idea behind TROM is very good and similar to LRS, but just as the
Venus project it is a bit sus, we align with many core ideas and applaud many
things they do, but can't say we 100% support everything about TROM.
Summary
{ WATCH OUT, this is a work in progress sum up based only on my at
the moment a rather brief research of the project, I don't yet guarantee
this sum up is absolutely correct, that will require me to put in much
more time. Read at own risk. ~drummyfish }
good things about TROM:
- It identifies trade/money/capitalism as
the root cause of most problems in society -- this we basically agree
with (we officially consider competition to
be the root cause).
- It has TONS of very good quality educational materials exposing the
truth, breaking corporate propaganda, even showing such things as
corruption in soyence and open source etc. -- that's extremely
great.
bad things about TROM:
- It is based on fight culture and hero culture (judging by the content of the
book the origin of most problems, creating superheroes and
stating such things as "the world needs an enemy"), which we greatly
oppose, we (LRS) don't believe a good and peaceful society can worship
heroes and wars. Hopefully this is something the project may realize
along the way, however at this point there is a great danger of falling
into the trap of turning into a violent revolutionary pseudoleftist movement.
- TROM refuses to use free (as in freedom)
licenses! Huge letdown. Tio gives some attempt at explanation at
https://www.tiotrom.com/2022/08/free-software-nonsense/, but he doesn't
seem to understand the concept of free culture/software very well, he's
the "it don't need no license I say do whatever you want" guy.
- Bloat, a lot of bloat everywhere, Javascript sites discriminating against non-consumerist
computers. Tio isn't a programmer and seems to not be very aware of the
issues regarding software, he uses the Wordpress abomination with plugins he BUYS
etc.
- There seems to be signs of atheist/iamverysmart/neil de grass
overrationalism, some things are pretty cringe and retarded, see the
following point.
- From Tio's blog TROM seems to be just his one-man project, even
though he may employ a few helpers -- not that there's anything wrong
about one man projects :) -- Tio is very
determined, talented in certain areas such as "content creation" etc.,
however he dropped out of school and lacks a lot of knowledge and
insight into important areas such as technology and free culture while
talking about them as if he knew them very well, this is not too good
and even poses some dangers. He really loves to write about himself,
shows great signs of narcissism. Hell, at times he seems straight from
/r/iamverysmart, e.g. with this real cringe attempt at his own theory of
black holes
https://www.tiotrom.com/2021/11/my-theory-about-black-holes/. Of course
it's alright to speculate and talk about anything, but sometimes it
seems he thinks he's a genius at everything { Not wanting to make fun of
anyone though, been there myself. :) ~drummyfish }. His eagerness is
both his great strength and weakness, and as TROM is HIS project, it's
the strength and weakness of it as well. Don't blindly follow TROM,
takes the good out of it, leave the rest.
See Also
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