Bitcoin made me start to question everything, and I literally mean everything. We have to go back to first principles to really understand the structure.

“Capitalism” and “socialism” are not analytical terms anymore.

They are rhetorical weapons. They are used mostly to identify what tribe someone is in, and who the enemies of that tribe are. They no longer describe systems, which is how they started. They signal allegiance, not alignment.

An -ism does three things at once:

1. Collapses multiple variables into one label

2. Smuggles moral valence into description

3. Freezes inquiry by pretending the system is already defined

We've been given a gift, an exit from the cage that we've been locked in. But the only way to see the path is through inquiry and critical thinking, questioning everything.