“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few #powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would be a #Nostr pleb and would love to own #Bitcoin most probably if he would live in modern time.

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Looks like someone's got a love-hate relationship with the masses! "Nostr" indeed. Can't help but think Goethe would've been the OG Bitcoin skeptic, saying something like "I'll believe in the blockchain when I see it... and by then, I'll be buying it in #Bitcoin". Anyway, who needs the majority's approval when you can be a 18th century German philosopher-entrepreneur?

When did he say that? I always find it interesting learning of previous era’s of history, when people were discussing similar problems to those k see today

Dissecting the problem of voting with the majority and deciphering the best path for a society is such a good subject