Hey Jeff!

I feel like when it comes to Bitcoin, and it's long term paradigm shift towards a future of global abundance for all, we're kindred spirits who would be good friends if we should ever meet.

I love what I see El Salvador doing with Bitcoin, I have often thought about relocating my home there and helping to build Bitcoin country. I understand that we're seeing transition from the old system of fear and the new system of hope and that the old system feeds off of fear. I also understand that when due process has failed so totally as it did in El Salvador, that just fighting fire with fire may very well have been necessary to free the country from gang violence and allow it's people to live normal lives again. Regardless of what we think of as right, as history has shown might ultimately makes right and when your enemy is willing to kill you without due process then imprisoning them without it is the lesser evil.

But my mind has been struggling to understand how someone so visionary as Bukele, who's trying to better his country with freedom tech and the elimination of gang violence, is the same person who could agree to send seemingly non-violent undocumented immigrants (that are in the process of getting on the right side of the law and who have family's) without due process to the same prison as those convicted of gang violence in El Salvador.

I want to support El Salvador, but I value due process rights for all who are not of imminent threat to other's life liberty or property. Can you help me understand this? Do you know anything about the conditions these non-violent deportees are in? If we all value truth, freedom, and individuality, surely this is not how it seems in the surface and something else is at play here which I'm just not seeing at the moment.

Thank you Jeff.

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We know some things for sure: Much of the gang activity, wars, and elections in Central America was/is financed by 3 letter word agencies in the US in the name of nation building or protecting interests. That activity has created untold pain. It’s hard to even imagine how much. I ask myself, “if” someone really cared about making a change (rather than be a puppet like so many others in countries with dictators that serve those interests) it would mean going up against that power. Drastically and dramatically ripping it out. (Otherwise the public and that person would be at the same risk as always and nothing would change) ie - The narrative and story and media including psyops and false flags is all part of the current control structure (this is not a guess for me and I would not be saying it without evidenced personally at the highest level)

What the future brings is unknown, and I can’t promise that he doesn’t take power, and then turn it into further abuses. That being said, I “think” he understands the game at play here and bitcoin as a protocol removes his power by redistributing it to his population. We will see, but that’s why I went to see him.

To try to see for myself - to look deeper in the hopes I could get through the biases on both sides of a complicated transition.

And most people are measuring him through a control structure that has an insane amount of power - and not realizing that they themselves are being manipulated by it.

Hope that helps.

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Great insight.

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Did you film that conversation? To have been a fly on the wall..

Really appreciate your response Jeff. It reminded me of the deeper meaning of the lyrics to "Life on Mars" by David Bowie.

If my interpretation is correct, essentially, we are in a constant state of watching ourselves fuck up and not understanding the true cause of it all. Then we misunderstanding the way to fix it, and work to make society shift in a way that doesn't actually fix anything and results in the pendulum swinging back the other way.

This capturing of our fear instincts (along with the lack of any free time to see through it all enough to break free, cause we're always working, because our savings and wages constantly lose value) by politics and news, is also influenced in such a way that it's like society's reaction to society's problems is gently steering us across generations towards iceberg after iceburg while we're all gossiping about whatever bullshit someone did on a deck we've probably never even been to.

At the end of the day, we're all just afraid. We're all afraid of our lives being blown up figuratively and/or physically. We're fearful of the future, and distrustful of "others". So we support leaders claiming to be able to fix it and bring back "the good old days" when the underlying problem is the smaller the group of human beings in charge, and the less freedom and time available to the people being ruled, the more corrupt the system and oppressive the system.

Bitcoin fixes everything because fixing the money by taking it out of the control of small groups and into the hands of everyone who values freedom (a lot of people all over the world) we enforce the new system of abundance on everyone whether they understand it or not and like it or not. Ultimately this abundance eliminates the fear of scarcity that's behind almost all undesirable actions towards others, and true world peace is achieved.

No matter what the current news is, this system's days are numbered, and understanding that can at least help people hold out hope that everything will be okay, and sooner than we expect.

Perhaps Bukele is just trying to play the game to protect his people from the rage of the current super power while we all wait for the world to understand the paradigm shift that is now happening. In his position, wouldn't we do the same?

Thanks again. The more I understand, the more I look forward to the future that's fast approaching. 🍻

Sorry for chiming in, but your inspiring conversation made me think that a substancial factor for hope, here in El Salvador, are the thousands and thousands of teenagers who've been initiated to the Bitcoin mindset through schools' courses, be them the "Mi Primer Bitcoin" ones or the "Node Nation" ones - in this latter case, 15 y.o. students learn how to set up a node & a miner, that they manage themselves collectively (even the school authorities don't have access to the keys 😊).

I mention this because it's probably our most vigorous seed of hope for this "Bitcoin generation" not to "give a fiat" (lol) about whom will be El Salvador's President in 10 or 20 years. They could very well not trust any political party, and verify on a daily basis what's best for them, their families and their communities, in a fundamentally decentralized fashion.

Can you think of any scenario how it would be possible that the leader of a country could be a corrupt dictator but yet encourage and educate the masses from 7 years old on up to understand ₿? I can’t. We moved here and I’ve talked to many Bukele haters who believe he is corrupt. The last thing a corrupt leader would want to do is give the prisoners ₿.