Nation-states were not formed out of a sense of collective problem-solving, communal protection, or shared values.
They were formed because human beings always vie to control each other and their resources, through barbaric coercion if necessary. Violent domination is easier than peaceful production.
Read "The State" by Franz Oppenheimer.
(Conquest theory > contract theory)
It's truly depressing how much the modern, western, reformed church has crippled self-identified christians into being subservient to and giving their allegiance to Babylon, lauding its culture, and incorporating its values in direct opposition to YHWH's kingdom.
"The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live." ~Tolstoy
✅ "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" by Eric Hughes
https://activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
✅ "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" by Tim May
https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html
out of the darkness of worldly hatred unto the light of love
This is awesome. Can't wait to read it. 🤘
Bitcoin was born out of the cypherpunk movement as the economic praxis of cryptoanarchism.
It is both an individual and social liberation from the "statist" quo, decoupling the communication of value from the logic of violence.
A monetary, anarchic order without rulers that empowers everyone.
"Christians were never meant to be normal. We've always been holy troublemakers, we've always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world."
"Tornado Cash was used once again, but in place of Blender, another Bitcoin mixer was used: Sinbad."
cc #[0]
https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/norway-seizes-584-million-in.html?m=1
"Whoever says Anarchy says denial of government; whoever says denial of government says affirmation of the people; whoever says affirmation of the people says individual liberty; whoever says individual liberty says the sovereignty of each; whoever says the sovereignty of each says equality; whoever says equality says solidarity or fraternity; whoever says fraternity says social order. Therefore whoever says Anarchy says social order."
· Bellegarrigue
"Agorists regard this counter-economy as a form of nonviolent direct action, a method of simultaneously challenging and evading state power, in the process building a free society based on the principles of unrestricted voluntary exchange."
"Slowly and steadily, the counter-economy results in infrastructural substitution, the replacement of the increasingly atrophic state with networks of voluntarily cooperating and trading individuals." #Agorism
Welcome to the Agora in the Digital Age
"smart" phone
"smart" speaker
"smart" grid
"smart" car
"smart" home
"smart" city
"smart" = "State controlled"
How do we get Nick Szabo on nostr