The guiding question still seems to me this: who owns your ideology, whether a charismatic strongman or a secret intelligence agency? Sub-question being implied is this: can any political movement ever be pure, un-manipulated at the narrative or financial level? If not: fuck the sponsors or war and fuck their fucked incentive structures.
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Political movements exist only in the realm of ideals. They aren't real in the physical sense.
I think bitcoin provides us with a unique opportunity to link the ideal to the physical.
In this sense it will brush aside all the ideals which are not compatible, including this arm chair economist.
But that’s manifestly untrue. Just think of the 99% or the MeToo or the Woke movements: all ideals turned to occupied buildings, losses of prestige, and neutered kids respectively.
Follow the provenance of your ideal. As many philosophers say.
I see your point. I might have been too absolute in my statement. Those ideals obviously informed physical action and outcomes, but the ideals themselves are not real in a physical sense.
There's nothing tying them to reality except for the people who chose to believe them. There's no bounds to how those ideals are translated into action.
I'm not sure if I've fully formulated what I'm trying to get across yet, but maybe you see what I'm getting at.