I know this will sound corny to this crowd, but I'm thankful for #bitcoin

There are several reasons, but at top of mind right now is how F'n fake everything else is.

So, I'm old enough now to have seen a few waves of anti-state or "freedom" movements. Its always the same pattern, and its always a complete let-down, which I think is by design.

Videos emerge from carefully constructed platforms. There's different platforms for different mindsets - rebels don't mix with kowtow'ers, but both can be in the same camp if their leaders present themselves accordingly. So we're presented a video, the magic words are said, a guest speaker appears and he/she is an expert and they're "in the movement" and part of the magic words is referencing other people you've never heard of, but seem influential. You've never seen these people before, or very little, and if you step back and look at the construction of the dialogue, you see that there's something of an upward spiral of credibility being built, where we're assured they're on our side, then details, then associated experts referenced, then details, then past predictions referenced, which always were right, and so on - credibility in the viewer's mind builds. Its a story, and the shape of the story is always fairly similar, though the details change. But the underlying message is, someone is doing something.

And we're in the movement, because we watched the video. And something is happening, something is being done - so you have the option to find this movement, or continue to sit, content in the knowledge that you're right and things are happening, and better people are getting the right thing done, and you can keep sitting there and it's okay, because you were right.

Its all bullshit.

There's no movement. Never was.

Its all carefully constructed to get one outcome : you doing nothing. Complacency is the goal.

They sing the sweet sweet song of "you were right." They cast a spell on you... and you go back to sleep.

While someone out there puts their hand in your pocket and robs you. Except... Its not really your money they want, although they'll take that - they rob you of your life force. Your spirit. They consume your inner you. There's no hell or heaven waiting - what's left after they've eaten your soul? Those things are for them, not you.

Because you believed the bullshit.

Back to bitcoin : we finally have a way. You DO have to actually do something. You DO have to take a risk. The measure of your success is determined by how much you actually stand up to the powers and principalities. No pain, no gain - and it tests you.

You can stop watching the BS videos about people doing something. You can stop lying to yourself that something will change. The way out is here. Withdraw. Withdraw with a plan.

Remake yourself ; remake the world.

Happy Thanksgiving.