Why does that make them stupid? Naïve maybe, or overly trusting. But stupid?
You’re being pedantic. Of course there’s a physical process.
But if no one had invented or discovered how to make it, would you know how to make it? I wouldn’t. But once the IDEA that you can intentionally make fire spreads, then you at least know that it is POSSIBLE to start a fire.
Something something raw milk.
Something something grass fed beef.
When does he ream out Zelensky for not wearing a suit and kowtowing to the emperor who rules All Under Heaven?
Parasovereign Litmus Test
Note: This is not an ethical or utilitarian judgment. A system may be highly useful, innovative, or ethical and still not qualify as parasovereign. This framework is purely classificatory.
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Step 1 — Ownership
• Does a company, foundation, board, or identifiable group own or legally steward the system?
• Yes → Not Parasovereign
• No → Step 2
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Step 2 — Protocol Authority
• Can a single actor or small group decide or dictate changes to the rules or parameters?
• Yes → Not Parasovereign
• No → Step 3
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Step 3 — Permission to Participate
• Can anyone run a node, validate, transact, or publish without needing approval, licensing, or gatekeeping?
• No → Not Parasovereign
• Yes → Step 4
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Step 4 — Suppression Resilience
• If suppressed in one place, can the system reappear elsewhere by redeploying code or reviving the idea, without institutional permission?
• No → Not Parasovereign
• Yes → Step 5
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Step 5 — Persistence as Idea
• If all instances vanished, could the system be reconstructed from the concept alone (like language, proof of work, public–private key pairs)?
• No → Not Parasovereign
• Yes → ✅ Parasovereign
Engineered parasovereign systems (Bitcoin, Nostr, Tor) are deliberately designed to resist capture and suppression. Their seed is explicit—a protocol, a proof, a key pair—that anyone can rediscover, reinstantiate, and propagate without institutional approval.
Emergent parasovereign systems (family, language, religion, commodity money) arise spontaneously through human interaction. Their seed is woven into culture itself, carried forward unconsciously, and revived again and again, even across collapses of civilization.
Parasovereign systems are ideas—like the wheel, fire, language, proof of work, or cryptographic key pairs. They have no owner and no governing institution. Like dormant seeds, they may lie forgotten or unimplemented for centuries, but they never vanish. Once conditions allow, they reawaken, take root again, and spread without requiring permission or authority.
A parasovereign system is one that nobody owns, nobody can dictate, and nobody can erase: it is an idea that persists independently of institutions or authority.
I saw my mother use a wringer washer and our phone was on a party line.
Attempts at total sovereignty—totalitarianism, high modernist projects, centralized control economies—always encounter parasovereign resistance and workaround. These orders often prove decisive in undermining the sovereign itself.
Running Bitcoin Knots, DATUM mining to Ocean pool, running Bitaxe and NerdQAxe++.
What are you doing to ensure Bitcoin decentralization and monetary integrity?
All metaphors and analogies are limited. I agree with your formulation. However, they only appear unruly, threatening and chaotic to those operating and interpreting within sovereign order. Bitcoin, Nostr and other parasovereign systems are highly ordered. It’s just not necessarily congruent with or legible within sovereign institutions and authorities. Moreover, they are voluntary, not imposed top-down.
Sovereign is inward and upward, parasovereign is outward and downward.
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Somehow I feel nothing will satisfy you.
Then prepare for war.
You see, the communists meant well…
What’s your point? 🤣
It’s not unexamined so much as ignored.
Does that explain the ongoing love affair of with Mao, Stalin, Che Guevara, Marxism in general, and murderous islamo-fascism by the current crop of useful idiots? Does that explain the rampant Jew hatred today? Your statement is antisemitic pure and simple. Don’t bother commenting on my posts if you’re going to say such hateful things.
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The idea isn't to impose it on others, only for personal selection.
Definitely geniuses working over there.
Two of my daughters now on Nostr onboarded in nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkczrdu3h. Both are looking to share their art.
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Bitcoin is a journey, not a destination.