“On page 209, the author expresses his support for war as a normal part of culture and society by stating: “We must be willing to entertain an uncomfortable but potentially valid hypothesis that wars provide an irreplaceable social and technical benefit to society.”
This is a very controversial perspective and opinion. Reading academic work about a strategic national security tool by an author that believes in facilitating war as a culture – makes it difficult to interpret subject matter objectively.
With a topic as peaceful and technical as Bitcoin, operational systems and educational guidance is necessary without the opinion and rhetoric for personal pro-war ideology.
On page 217 JPL states that “oppression happens when people refuse to fight for what they value.” This is incorrect. Oppression can happen incrementally, in a population of distracted citizenry who have no idea they are in a fight for their very existence.”