If there is one thing I learned in life is that humans love to control and manipulate other humans. It can be by force, by faith or by emotional appeal.
It happens in all governments, all markets, all religions, inside companies, between friends, in the internet, among family members, etc. Even libertarians love to tell you how you should live your life, with consequences if you don't.
Life is a constant struggle to be who you and only you want to be.
Have you tried it at least? It's the best! It's good because you don't have to look at the ugliness inside.
we'll build true exit
True what you say. Aggression is the norm in the statist society.
BTW... Someone who calls himself "libertarian" not always will be a libertarian.
A libertarian will never use force or fraud aiming to tell you how you should live your life, as long as you are not an agressor.
If you live your life in a way that a libertarian finds, in any way, wrong, this libertarian will ignore you, or boycott you, or even keep you away from this libertarian's private property, in order to avoid YOUR aggressions...
but a real libertarian will never be THE aggressor.
Libertarians will use emotional appeal to control you. It's not force by their definition. But they will trick you into behaving in the way they want you to behave. In their mind, you made the choice to be fooled by them. They may not be the agressor, but they will definitely control you.
Private property is a form of violent act on the commons, you fucking imbecile. Here watch your idiotic argument gets deconstructed, and how the LIbErTaRiAnS will always use force first:
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Evolution wasn't fooling around when it did that. We have to be careful when we say that the way we ought to be is a way which, had we been that way in the past, our species would never have made it to this point.
True. We probably self selected to be this way.
But mostly due to the lack of access to general knowledge. Maybe nature optimized humans to the wrong outcome.
Nature tends to hedge its bets vis a vis the outcome, though. If we end up in some kind of nuclear apocalypse and have to build the species back up from pretty much scratch then it'll be a good thing that nature kept around a lot of this old-school stuff.
Humans are just a temporary species in the history of time. I don't think it is going to repeat it, even with our current skills. Pretty much like the dinosaurs never really came back.
Man a social animal. There is manipulation but people also seek guidance from other people.
I don't think control and manipulation is the objective. People just want to see other people lives improve by the same mechanics that improved theirs.
That's their excuse at least. They just ignore the damage their create by their own past recommendations.
Being on your own is scary and dangerous. We don't have claws and teeth, we can only survive in groups.
Narratives give meaning to our lives and we love to share them and form communities around them. The sharing is a core part of our identity. Why are we posting on nostr at all if group interactions are mostly a struggle to free ourselves from deceit?
At the same time, no two persons have exactly the same narrative. And I think that is alright. Just need to realize that, and what you get is not a story of manipulation but mere incentives of universal creatures each with their own unique reality to contribute.
Only strong individuals can be who they are.
Individuals who don't cuck to corruption be it financial, cultural or moral.
Bitcoin gives people Freedom.
Bitcoin Knots defends it.
Don't forget appeal to authority. Core devs and their supportes do this daily. The most egregious example being the classic "letter signed by the experts" manipulation tactic.
Sounds like a threat to our democracy
Is true. But in the end it is still my decision, if I do my actions to please everyone else or to please me. An every thing inbetween. Only the uncautious falls into a trap of automating these thoughts.
But every time we get contious we can decide to make new decisions.
I firmly believe that the future should be decentralised. That if control structures should still exist they should be much smaller & more limited.
I don't know how we get there other than through attrition & the eventual collapse of those larger structures.
What I struggle with is embracing the chaos that free thinking humans always bring. Perhaps in time we'll develop telepathy to better communicate our intentions & concerns?
The hardest thing I've found is studying myself. If it wasn't for covid lockdown, I would never have considered it.
1. Health.
2. Mental wellbeing.
3. Who to trust.
4. My values.
5. Building a knowledge base.
6. Connecting with those who embraced Bitcoin Protocol.
7. Joining Nostr.
This has enabled me to discern the language of persuasion from all sectors of society on a macro and micro level.
To understand when perception is used compared to perspective .
To learn the right questions .
To identify the fear, to face the fear, to find alternative solutions .
Still on this journey. To learn, to adapt, to adopt.
A good journey . Regardless of who dominates, what laws come out of the woodwork and the ability to look under the hood, when governments speak.
True 👏👏
