I think we need to buy an island in Alaska and build citadel, a real one.
Within 2 generations we can own and have developed the whole island into a world class city; and it totally ours.
It has to be America because we must be armed—it’s impossible without developing a defense militia force.
Their guns will always be bigger. We had land, we had weapons, and we had thousands of years of understanding of how to live in balance with the land. It didn’t matter. If you can’t convince the majority of people that your beliefs are worth fighting for, the fight is hopeless. We need the majority to win this war. There are no walls tall enough, or moats wide enough, and hiding will only prolong the inevitable. We must win by telling a better story.
Middle path might be to build a citadel, hidden in plain sight, while telling a better story, setting a better example. No need to let anyone outside the citadel know it’s a citadel until they’re ready. One day, without anyone noticing, the zeitgeist has shifted, and everyone sees it as obvious.
I have thought about this. The mining infrastructure is actually *the* citadel and is designed as such.
This is a good analogy, but we still need to source energy to support the “citadel”. If we do not have the majority of people in our camp, it would be very easy for our opposition to restrict our access and restrict our mobility to seek other forms/place for our energy.
I don’t see any other path forward other than winning in the world of ideas, not in the world of force and conflict. We have to be able to make it politically necessary for candidates to back bitcoin, and we do that by convincing the majority of “regular” people that bitcoin is the path forward. We do this by telling a story that resonates with people, not by hiding, going to space, or by buying land/island separate from the people.
This is great.
I’d just as the fact that a world class military is less needed as it’s much harder for people to invade and take our money.
It needs to be open and transparent. There is no hiding the citadel. Hiding makes it easier for the opposition to frame it as “bad” and “nefarious” activity.
The island would be so we can privately develop new forms of weapons covertly, while also manufacturing conventional weapons.
With massive energy rail guns can more sufficiently developed that are both weapons, and we can use to get into space.
Long goal is to get into space first, not because we want to go there, but if the state sufficiently gets precision weaponry up there—game over everyone.
Privately develop new forms of weapons covertly, that would compete against the weaponry of world powers? I don’t see how this would be possible.
Also it won’t be about fighting people anymore at this point.
Really interesting Erik. I’ve been rattling these ideas for a long time now. Buying a ghost town in America, buying a town in France, Spain or Portugal. Plenty going up for sale.
It’s the infrastructure that worries me. As a teacher of art I’m still waiting to be paid in bitcoin to teach.
Need to decide if I’m going dance with wolves or midsommer.
Although happy to go with a Dune type of environment.
This is relevant to my interests.
An island in Alaska sounds rough. How do you prevent it from turning into an isolated commune instead of a thriving city state?
