There is no freedom without responsibility, and no responsibility without discipline. These are the twin building blocks of a sovereign life. Given how hard these two virtues are to cultivate and maintain, a lot of people end up opting for convenient slavery by default. They choose it not once, but daily. Not consciously, but through a thousand small surrenders.
This choice becomes hereditary. The mindset of submission, this worship of authority, this fear of independent thought, gets transmitted like a cultural virus. Schools reinforce it. Mockingbird media repeats it. Institutions sanctify it, with entire civilizations sleepwalk into serfdom while believing they are free. Myths like "A house is the best asset you can buy, real estate always goes up, a degree will guarantee you a good job, if it were true it would be on the news, the government will never do that, that's dangerous to our democracy, vaccines save lives, etc..." become part of the slave-mind programming that most people internalize and believe to be true.
These aren’t ideas. They’re scripts, installed, updated, and reinforced until the inner voice becomes indistinguishable from the propaganda that authored it. This is the software of slavery. Once these myths calcify into a person’s belief system, the chains become internal. The Matrix no longer needs coercion; it has consent. As long as even one of these myths dwells in the temple of your mind, you remain a captive. You may change your job, your city, your politics, but the cage travels with you, invisible and absolute.
This is why a lot of people have a hard time wrapping their minds around #Bitcoin.
Not because it's "too technical", another lie whispered to keep you small, another myth that complexity is the domain of priests and experts, not mere mortals like you. No. Bitcoin shatters because it offers what the matrix cannot tolerate: economic sovereignty. Money without masters. A financial system that doesn't ask for permission, doesn't beg for validation, doesn't require a intermediary to authorize your existence.
To truly embrace Bitcoin is to declare independence from the umbilical cord that has fed you since birth. It is to say: I will be my own bank. I will custody my own wealth. I will not outsource my financial future to institutions that view me as livestock. This terrifies the programmed mind. The matrix umbilical cord, that warm, reassuring tether to the familiar, pulls them back every time. They retreat to what they know; managed funds, institutional custody, "trusted" third parties. They trade freedom for the comfort of servitude, sovereignty for the illusion of safety.
