What was the strangest thing that was hardest for you to accept as you feel deeper down the rabbit hole ?
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"This is going to work"
Oddly enough, that not everything needs a blockchain to be decentralized. It's become so ingrained in crypto that many treat blockchain and decentralization as synonymous, when they are most certainly not.
Some things are still worth more than money
That I forgot to pick up milk earlier.
Learning about how the Fed goes about demand destruction was a wild experience for me. Couldnât believe a group of unelected government officials had so much power over our spending habits and no one talks about it.
There is no second best.
When I was younger I used to think "Nah they wouldn't do that" lol how wrong I was.
For me, once the dam broke most things came pretty easy. It was just really hard to break out of my normie midset initially.
I could not see that 9/11 was a planned demolition. I remember this cute girl at a party trying to tell me about the crazy inconsistencies at the pentagon & the whole mess, & I was just totally numb to it somehow. I remeber listening to that debate where Ron Paul owned Juliani & at the time somehow it didn't register that Juliani got owned. And I fucking voted for McCain in that election đ
But sometime just after that I read Atlas Shrugged, & I read & listened to a bunch of Thomas Sowell & Milton Friedman, & I read Meltdown by Tom Woods. And then in the summer of 2010 I listened to an interview with Tom Woods & Doug Casey where Doug said something like, "every line on every map is just a line where one group of criminals could no longer advance on another," & Tom said, "returning to the constitution just kinda feels like chasing a unicorn," & that was the last straw. Everything snapped into place. I woke up.
I voted one last time for Ron Paul in 2012 even tho I was already opposed to voting, & then never again, until a recent local vote for sheriff.
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Atlas Shrugged did it for me when I was 19. P.410, Franciso D'Antonia's 60 page speech about the Root of Money. Everything happening to us today boils down to a grab for the wealth of the world's private sector. All of it.
When I was young I used to think voting mattered. I still vote during presidential years but I choose all the libertarian candidates. It doesnât matter but oh well.
In NY, three buildings fell. Two planes. Most people canât count.
Yeah, I build stuff, it was so painfully obvious once I became sane. But before that my reality distortion field was really strong. I try to remember that & look for other things i might still be distorting.
Why would you say youâre âopposedâ to voting?
Is it because of the implications electing someone means exerting authority on others? Or from a sense of voting insignificance since all elected officials serve only the elites, not the people?
Ron Paul (after winning CPAC 5 years in a row) won Iowa & Main in the 2012 primaries, but the news falsely reported the numbers & ignored the delegates that were understandably furious over the lies about the results they were responsible for reporting. There's no telling what impact that had on the rest of the election, & how much they lied elswehere too. There are plenty of other examples of cheating once you start looking. The voting & tabulating equipment is not open source specifically because the companies want to sell outcomes to political interests.
But beyond all that, democracy is *at best* lowest common denominator mob rule. And voting is basically just begging for someone else to fix your life. There's nothing just or sane about the system at all, & I generally think participation is in a way offering some form of consent. If I vote it implies that I'll support the outcome. And if my choices are both evil, then I am supporting evil whether the politician I choose wins or loses. I generally don't want any part in any of it.
That said, I do think local positions are more likely to be influenced by participation & they certainly matter more in my day to day life. So while all of the above still applies, if coloring a dot might help reduce the severity of the stupid that I have to face at home then why not đ
Totally fair. I agree with the larger elections, if the current administration doesnât prove to Americans that President isnât calling the shots, isnât serving the people, and is catering to corporate interests, then I donât know what will.
At a local level I feel more of a reason to go out and vote. While what we call âdemocracyâ has the issues you raised, when I have to live with the repercussions of the elected itâs in my best interest to play the game as morally deprived the system may be.
Cheers!
you cannot live IN or AS a Bitcoin