Not gonna lie that was a great advertisement

Going to watch it now

Yay or nay on this theme?

Radioactive ☢️

The Dynastic Cycle and the Fourth Turning are all basically the same thing. It's built into civilization, regardless of era or culture.

There are debt/money growth cycles, law/bureaucracy growth cycles, and periods of reset for both of them.

During the growth phase, debt accumulates, and laws build upon laws as bureaucrats become bloated and detached. Even well-meaning people in power can't fix it; every attempt to fix things just adds another layer of debt and legal complexity.

And then after a long enough time, it blows up. It could be slow or it could be fast, but it gets fucking rekt. It could be a lost war, a major internal revolution, or a slow massive decline and then a major populist democratically-elected landslide pivot.

The new government emerges, as order out of chaos, with elements of authoritarianism. The ideal scenario is that this newfound unity is enough to create change in the right direction, and then decentralize itself to re-establish rule of law and individual rights. The more common scenario, however, is that this newfound unity is not let go by those who claimed it, and it leads to authorianism/communism/fascism and decades of problems. In other words, the revolution against the decaying chaos is easy, but sticking the landing toward the re-emergence of freedom and productivity is the hard part.

That's why nothing stops this train. We're in the debt cycle rotation/reset, and eventually the bureaucratic rotation/reset as well. It takes billions of dollars to build a thousand feet of high-speed rail in the USA. Europe flails around on energy optics. Politicians become satire. Japan is stuck in yield curve control. This can last a long time, but the tailspin is nearly irrecoverable.

Incrementalism doesn't work at this phase. The event horizon is passed. Rather, the focus becomes on what order will emerge from the chaos. Is it rational order, or is it even worse than what came before?

The answer to that question, is what people have a big part in shaping.

This so the most aggressively 80s video that I’ve seen in years. I’ve never seen such potent and tightly packed 80s in one place.

But anonymous voting is very important.

It’s not about what you like and don’t like. Voting should be non-kyc. So that if you vote for the loser, the winner doesn’t discriminate against you for whatever reason.

There is a difference between registered voters vs KYCed voting.

Yeah, I can see that working. Also relatively no costs.

So you go to the state. Spin up a new pub/priv key pair, and you prove you own it. To register.

How do you keep the government and people from knowing whom did you vote for though?

Is it possible to setup a voting system using #Bitcoin?

Gm, I had a horrible nightmare last night.

Bitcoin privacy companies were shutting down their service, some devs were put in jail.

Lightning service providers were fleeing the US due to ridiculous requirements.

OGs were being hunted for taxes in countries where they renounced citizenship.

Some clown was claiming that using Bitcoin as money is a distraction, while thousands of ”cyber hornets” were praising him for his genius and hundreds of others were propagating the ”Trojan horse” theory.

So glad I woke up and none of this is real!

#LittleMan has reached the stage where all play involves crashing, destroying, things on imaginary fire. Boys.

I’m rewatching Joker for the I-lost-how-many-nth-time.

It’s kind of depressing but also connects. The score is excellent!