Confession of a bitcoiner: I’ve never read the sovereign individual, until now.

Well, I started reading it. And beyond whether I agree or disagree with some of their beliefs/thesis, it brings up a bigger concern for me:

They’re getting a lot wrong, and failing to see the power and might of the U.S. and global coordinated effort that I think they believed would be well on its way to crumbling at this point?

This is my fear with many Bitcoiners as well — you live in a libertarian utopia, assuming others will join, when the fact of the matter is the U.S., the dollar, military global industrial complex, coordinated big tech, etc, is stronger than ever.

The hopium can’t block out the reality of the forces that plague humankind for the next century—it’s going to be a tough battle. The “sovereign individual” doesn’t automatically win…far from it. It has a higher chance of losing, unless we all do something about it. (I prefer sovereign communities, but maybe that’s the leftie in me 😉)

But I’m hopeful justice, peace, and freedom will win! We must be realistic about what we’re up against though.

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I’ve started reading it a lot of times. Some bits I really like but there is a lot that either goes over my head or just seems a bit far fetched. But maybe that is just me

I hope you skipped the y2k stuff 😃

Yeah the current situation seems bleak when contrasted with their vision, but we're still very early with this stuff. The general trend seems to be going how they describe, albeit slowly. Yes the nation states are clinging onto their power, but I can still very easily see them diminishing in relative importance. Have patience. "They" can't really afford that, but we can.