The struggle against loneliness, something many modern individuals experience but won't admit, is not just an emotional-relational one, but also an intellectual-relational one. When confronted with both, it is extremely demoralizing and isolating. (Pat answers be damned.)
"When the tide goes out [falling empires and their monetary systems] you discover who鈥檚 been swimming naked [state capitalists like Buffett and his ilk]"
Same. I'm waiting for the 8s to be released later this year and see if the 7s drop in $. (Running a 5a with CalyxOS)
Woman at the bar remarked on my wearing all black with a reserved demeanor and asked if I was a serial killer. My response?
"No. Just a serial killer of ideologies."
Phoenix isn't custodial.
People are panic buying bitcoin and I'm over here panic buying a 1/4 cow and bourbon
Bitcoin. Beef. Bulleits.
Did you happen to compare the StarBook with the Librem 14?
I think I've underestimated how many people in society are completely and utterly "under the influence" of drugs (mostly legally).
It is very disturbing.
"Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy."
鈥擝enjamin Tucker, "The Relation of the State to the Individual" (1890)
Finally watching the Circle of Dust documentary, and I'm in hog heaven
'The price I pay is living in this prison of myself'
Anarchic order heals statist chaos
"Sensitive. Sad. He carries within him the weight of a terrible tragedy. He is a good man, but lost. Which is why he comes across as grim."
You're not "your own bank" if you don't run a full node and use it
The intergenerational conflicts we are experiencing are largely a consequence of an aristocratic, fiat system of violent control and a manipulated monetary system; one which enriches the ruling class and politically well-connected (often the older generations), at the expense of everyone else.
Abolish the State and its central banking systems through cryptoanarchy, and our trajectory will to return to a more civil society based on consent, cooperation, and empathy.
Anarchic order will heal statist chaos.
Love Lionel, love The Mandibles, love the interview.
But bitcoiners refuse to be black pilled.
We must win; we will win.
Bitcoin is a beacon of light in the overwhelming darkness of a broken world.
I hope she joins us.