My experience is that good artists are usually warm and empathic, yet often critical towards art without depth or proof-of-work. Original people produce the most interesting art but not always the most market-adapted art.

In my youth I applied to several of the so-called 'free education' art schools in Stockholm together with a female friend who was also an artist.

We had a look at the exhibition made by students there and we couldn't believe the low quality of their work. Dried clay hanging in metal wires, without any meaning or aesthetic. And yet, we were both rejected, which was fine for me but she was deeply insulted, understandably so since she was very skilled at drawing and sculpting.

She commented to me afterward that all the students looked like communists, and I have to say she was on the right track. It was a political art school for socialists, with the pretense of 'free art school' for taxpayer money. That was the time I realized that the 'free education' system was rigged.

So we went our own way without the 'free public education'.

Congrats George!

Thanks Vitor, Zappety zap!

Yup, I consider both Bitcoin and Nostr to be formations of Galt's Gulch. It's anywhere where we have decentralization.

Obelix contrarianism: when you repeatedly jumped into the non-conformist couldron as a child and had a lifetime's worth of drink from the brew.😆

Thanks for the work Guy.

I can add that Zebedee doesn't have NIP-57 support. Also it's not possible to change the email address yet. It has high LN fees; one time it paid 250 sats for a tx.

Aesop

Pre-Socratics

Plato, Aristotle and the golden mean

Ayn Rand

I'll add that I disagree with Plato and Aristotle on a host of matters. Loved the Kung Fu series with David Garradine when I was growing up. In my early teens I was into Schopenhauer + Carl Jung. Later read some Zen Buddhism stories + Osho/Rajneesh also.

💯 Rosa Koire from 2011:

"The specific plan is called United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which has its basis in Communitarianism." (Page 12)

"In a nutshell, the plan calls for governments to take control of all land use and not leave any of the decision making in the hands of private property owners. It is assumed that people are not good stewards of their land and the government will do a better job if it is in control. Individual rights in general are to give away to the needs of communities as determined by a globalist governing body."

"UN Agenda 21 policies date back to the 1970's but it got its real start in 1992 at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when president Bush signed onto it along with the leaders of 178 other countries. Because it is a 'soft law' it did not have to be ratified by the Congress." (Page 13)

"This plan is a whole life plan. It involves the educational system, the energy market, the transportation system, the governmental system, the health care system, food production and more.

It is a plan to inventory and control all of the natural resources, means of production and human beings in the world. The plan is to restrict your choices, limit your funds, narrow your freedoms and take away your voice."

"Everything that has happened was meant to happen by your government." (Page 17)

// Behind The Green Mask - UN Agenda 21, 2011

--- Thankfully, Bitcoin will put a stop to the madness of Agenda21 and Agenda2030.

Yeah, Twitter goes full 🤡🌎.

Pay $8 per month and maybe regain $4 in KYC shitcoin tokens if you post your butt off.🤣

Meanwhile, zaps and bitcoin tips build up the alternative economy and contribute with natural coin mixing. The more sats are mixed the better.

Sorry, lost it in a Zapping accident.😄

Yes, Bitcoin solves the problem of tyranny and totalitarianism.

As Samson Mow observed: when everyone becomes a witch (from the perspective of the State), then witch-hunting is no longer possible.

Similarly in history, Ceaucescu's seemingly overwhelming power was lost when public perception turned against his regime.

Bitcoin undermines the totalitarian architecture.

Every regulation results in surveillance over time. The regulatory state becomes the surveillance state. Why? Because every regulation requires monitoring to be efficient.

Asset and wealth regulations require monitoring of everything that a person owns, and projected over time, at a global level. This in turn results in global regulations to monitor asset or wealth ownership.

Whatever amount of wealth you can build up over your lifetime to secure your old age when you can no longer work, that wealth has already been taxed, often many times over if we include inflation.

If your wealth is regulated, then your desire for privacy becomes a crime. If there is a dispute over your wealth, then the government is always right according to the law, even when it is wrong. If there is a dispute in your reporting and the government claims that you owe it money, then even if you are correct, you are criminalized.

The government operates from an inverted burden of evidence; you are presumed guilty until proven otherwise. We saw the same principle applied to Covid; you are presumed sick (and dangerous) until proven otherwise.

This is a totalitarian priciple that gives a government full power to extract resources and compliance from individuals without providing evidence (proof-of-work) for the government's claims.

You must prove that you don't 'owe' the government X amount of money, while at the same time, the government can increase the requirements for evidence to a level where an honest person no longer can prove their wealth ownership to the standards set by the government for purposes of wealth seizure.

Right Rafa. Asset taxes are there to prevent people from opting out from inflation. Inflation is the hidden theft that most people either don't see, or at times, they believe they benefit from it. (Over time they don't, unless they are the 1% cantillionaires)

Energy and focus have cycles. A fast paced walk outside in the early morning or evening is helpful. Movement provides our brains with additional oxygen and the outdoors grounds us.

We can't choose all of the the external events impacting our lives. We can however decide at any moment how to respond and think about them. The past is behind us, we learn the lessons we need and move forward. Keeping our eyes to the horizon aligns us with what is to come. Every year lived and every challenge overcome adds perspective.

Nice view.👍

You will make it through.

Saving in Bitcoin is the universe rewarding decades of hard work that would otherwise be stolen by inflation.

Same as now, creating art, developing 3D products but also finish long term game projects.

Thanks for the heads-up, I better not update yet then.🫠

Happy block #777,777 all Nostrians!