I have seen hard anodized 2024 panels damage steel. You can scrape a nail across it and it sparks too.

Sorry for this, miss emoji’d

nut they mess with the minds of the moral people

AND

even get them to do wrong things

They are not moral, I’m only talking about people that are.

Call me stupid and optimistic but I don’t think we’re moral out of fear, be it legal fear or fear of god, I think we are moral beings because somewhere deep inside “we’d just like to do good”.

#philosophy

I know ink has been spilled on this topic ad nauseum, by writers more knowledgeable and eloquent. But something really clicked into place for me this week, and I wanted to share.

Humanity was trapped in an endless cycle of states rising and falling. The 'good times creates weak men' meme.

States are incentivised to grow their power in order to justify their existence, because each state is nothing if not a collection of people who are self-interested. But that power must be granted by the populace.

Governments are literally incentivised to break societal bonds, to sap our strength and will, -to make us weak- so that we are inclined to grant them ever more power. If the average person took maximum responsibility for their own life, family, and community, what space is there left for a government to step in and LARP like they're solving problems?

We've been driven to this abhorrent softness over the course of generations, because this is what happens every cycle, in every land, with every people. Because we're flawed, and fearful, and imperfect.

But now we have Bitcoin, and Nostr... And I think these two things will give us enough space to break that cycle and realize our potential long term.

If you have young kids - take a look at them. When we are all gone and they are spending time with their grandchildren, the world will be a blindingly bright place.

Today I will start with paprica. Right now I already grow tomatoes and sweet potatoes 🍠

Two years ago

17 February 2022