Amen.

This world we live in.. I didn’t sign up for it. It was forced upon me. Some days it just becomes too much. I have taken my fair share of incoming arrows. Some of those arrows were, and continue to be, unjust. Some of those arrows were of my own causing. I am not perfect.

I don’t want a perfect world. I want a world where I’m not reliant upon the desires of others to control and extort me and where I’m respected enough to be left alone to do my thing so long as it doesn’t harm others unjustly.

The desire to effect this declaration already exists in many of us. No sane person likes to be controlled or have impositions forced upon him or her. At the end of the day, we the people give others the power to do things against us. We sit in relatively quiet outrage, not wanting to rock the boat, not wanting others to perceive us as crazy, and not doing anything about it. Though, in a sense, participating in #Nostr and #Bitcoin is doing something about it. It’s setting a direction toward what we believe is a better and more just society for us to live. For this I am encouraged that the options are available to each of us to participate or not as we see fit in a way that has not been available to us before.

Decentralization may seem like chaos to some, but that’s because they don’t yet understand what it is and means. They don’t understand that these systems are about taking back control from the privileged few. The proof is in the pudding. Our systems seem to be working. Each of us are free to participate or not in these decentralized systems. We know the rules ahead of time and we know that change is truly of consensus, rather than this fake show the ruling class foists upon us without consideration of our input or desires. nostr:note10qp726g4zffsgs05l83a5e7hx42rsqhx4urvmtg6g8xtnu4qxjpsgaxy4d