This is dumb, in more ways than one.
Territory is the most decisive factor in determining the outcome of any battle (according to Sun Tzu). As Bitcoiners, the moral, intellectual, and philosophical high ground that we occupy is virtually unassailable.
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Agreed, but would be curious to hear you elaborate more on why..
Well, fair enough. 1. Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been misapplied to domains it wasn’t written to address for the past all-the-years-I’ve-been-alive, and I find that really silly. 2. Even if we accept the premise of the quote as applying to Bitcoin, how does it follow that we have unassailable high ground? Also, Sun Tzu’s AoW addresses how to counter that problem too by drawing one’s enemies out of their strong position through non-military means. 3. Breedlove’s assertion of moral high ground is quite questionable; a category error, and therefore also possibly setting up a philosophical category error depending on what he means by “philosophical”.
I find Breedlove’s pithy quips to be rather obnoxiously pious in ways that are unnecessary to spreading info about the value of Bitcoin.
Well said. I appreciate the thoughtful response.
Your second point especially resonated with one of my current concerns with bitcoin. I believe the ‘strong position’ in this example is holding/using non-kyc bitcoin, but pretty much the whole industry has been a frog in boiling kyc water the last few years.
Paper gains on kyc bitcoin won’t matter if you can move it in the future ‘turn-key’ tyranny world that Snowden talks about.
Today’s bitcoiner’s should probably read ES’s memoir ‘Permanent Record’ before ‘AoW’, but that’s just my two sats.
if you can’t* move it