Social media is having its cyclical moment of revelation, as corporate greed and mismanagement reveals in real time the aims of all corporate and bureaucratic bodies: divide and conquer, erect ideological barriers and paywalls, and leverage any and all accrued power in order to gain more.

Reddit, twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, etc. We've all known that they exist to control us, but we wager that the "connection" they afford us is worth our loss of freedom. That horrible freedom: ostracism from the imperial aegis of power structures that so many cling to in a desperate attempt to be "relevant". The fight over money is more difficult and entrenched, and even the bravest, freest Bitcoiners still resort to a fiat-brained outlook from time to time.

I think it's important to maintain perspective: being part of a counter-cultural movement doesn't make you important or morally superior in any way. This is what I hear when I read "stay humble, stack sats": Freedom is a dangerous thing that most people will gladly trade away, especially for status, but it's uniquely precious because once it's gone, it can only be won back through horrible, almost certainly violent, sacrifice.

To a certain extent, saying that you "love freedom" when you use social media and fiat currency is a LARP, and that should make us humble. True freedom must be feared and respected for the demands it makes on us, and the powerful enemies that it has, not the least of which sits in our skulls and drives us to be proud and status-seeking.