Cryptography IS a munition.
And as such it should be protected as much by the second amendment as it is the first.
People sometimes think I am mean or sad bc of how I react and sometimes both of these things are true
But, most importantly, people do not realize the risks I take saying the things I say
I grew up understanding that cryptography was considered illegal munitions at one time
My parents raised me to deeply understand that we posses finite resources against endless battles
It is important that we preserve energy for the ones that matter
The protection of ciphers and cryptography matter in ways most cannot possibly understand
The number of people who can actually monitor for backdoors is infinitely small, the number of individuals who have the skills to create redundancy is a bit bigger but barely
“If they can redact, we can encrypt”
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For what it's worth though, speech is also a weapon.
When a government would turn humans into nothing but raw resources, really, ALL rights we maintain are a means of fighting back.
Agree 🫡 and when a govt demonstrates facism, it is the duty of the afore implemented checks and balances to balance
Fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism...
Really anything aside from stewarding the society and resources so as to maximize harmony and prosperity so that future generations will continue to prosper.
The trick is, incentivizing this does sort of rely on dynastic rule of some sort.
What people forget is that 80 years prior to the American revolution, the Dutch effectively took over the UK and undermined monarchy with the establishment of the bank of England. Things had already gone downhill a bit after the Norman invasion, but that really was the final nail.
The revolution wasn't really against monarchy; it happened because monarchy had ceased to be the governing system.
True, mobs and kings rule the same
Nothing says they'll be good at it, but someone who relies on the outputs of society is encouraged to govern sustainably. Rebellion costs money, and is usually easier to quell with honey than vinegar.
And if they're not good at it someone who is is incentivized to fill in the gap, aided by the rebellion who would seek to depose the bad ruler.
I'm not sure an absolute monarch is best, and there is probably cultural variance -- you never step in the same river twice. But the generational incentives make way more sense than election cycles...
Yep! Coups open up power vacuums and those power vacuums often end up filled by the most violent rebellion waiting to take power :/
This is why Bitcoin is the great equalizer!
It's funny, we've had this idea that freedom comes from the dismantling of government dating back to just before the rise of the Bavarian Illuminati.
And since we've worked harder and fought more wars and dealt with more bureaucracy and even had more organized slavery on scales previously unseen.
Maybe having leadership that believed in noblesse oblige wasn't so oppressive after all.
Hierarchy seems to be an organic system IMO… placing benevolent rulers in positions of power seems to be the difficulty
Idk where my post I just wrote went in reply to this. It was so long :'-(. Coracle SAID it was posted...
Anyway, it boiled down to looking at civilizational collapse of the past from a perspective of the grief cycle. Folks like Hobbes, in denial, thinking things weren't over after the fall of Rome -- we could just replace the collapsed system by holding an election to appoint a king, give him all power, and things would go on as well as an organic system that existed previously had. A bit like gluing sticks together and propping them up to replace a fallen tree.
Then came Anger, and a lot of the medieval doctrines of devils, demons, etc seem to speak to this. Also, anger at the old system for failing us -- it must be that the hierarchy itself had been the problem! When the tree collapsed, did it not land right upon us, when we needed it most for shelter? We decided we had to dispense with rulers, and even depose those that remained, before they have a chance to do it again!
Bargaining, as we sought to device complex systems to replace the organic ones of the past, with checks and balances, and elaborate artificial constructs. We know we can't just glue wood together to build a tree, but we'll be data driven, so it can be LIKE a tree, and even better. We swear.
Depression seems to be hitting particularly hard for many as of late, and especially in the post WWII period. It doesn't hit all at once, but we're finding ourselves fighting more and more wars and believing less and less that we're on the right side, but nobody appears to HAVE a right side. And meanwhile, things get worse. The tree is rotted, and all of our attempts to replace it fallen as well, having not the means to sustain themselves with the organic processes that the original tree had.
But then there's Bitcoin, shining a ray of hope down to us as we wake up groggy in a puddle of the vodka that we fell asleep in. It doesn't promise us any large system that can replace the hierarchies of old. It doesn't seek to put anyone on a throne, or suggest really anything controlled. It offers us soil in which new life can take root, if we're willing to give it a little water, and patience, and make sure it gets some light. And maybe, just maybe, we can move on from the collapse of the past, and actually grow a new tree, perhaps even taller and stronger than the one that came before.
Anyway, that's the gist of what I wrote. Wonder what happened to it. In any case, hope it's a nice little allegory for Christmas as we end the period of waiting around our little candles in the darkness for the salvation that is upon us tomorrow.
GM. And Merry Christmas Eve.
I tried to zap you because I thought this post was well written but I couldn’t :(
Weird...I use Zeusnuts, so it should just get an invoice regardless of my connectivity.
Thanks for the sentiment though. Wish you could have seen the first iteration, but c'est la vie. Might be fleshing it out and posting a long form anyway as it sort of all dawned on me as I was replying to you.
If I had a relay issue stop the post though that may also be why the invoice failed to generate.
Thank you. I've been saying this forever