“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” - Gandalf, Lord of the Rings.
Painting by Van Gogh
In true human form, the people who have and are involved with Bitcoin blame somebody else ( the central banks, money printing, not the fact you have also taken the loans from the central banks) just like humans do.
Bitcoin is truely an amazing piece of technology. You don't have to see your role in the problem clearly or take responsibility for it to work!
You're talking about the underpinnings of confidence.
It's coke and diet coke. I don't have a fan boi preference for either. It's an ego fight to laugh at both and yourself. Politics is like AFL to a Qlder. Irrelevant really.
Number 2 is the best looking, most unique!
The "great man" paradigm. Actors, musicians, politicians, doctors, artists, pilots, engineers... Etc etc yes even entrepreneurs. The ego/power/belonging component to those past identities is at great risk. And it's funny because they won't lose relevance with a bang but worth a long goodbye. I would say that the thing I've observed the most in people I know. That's one way so many cling to the power of the system I think.
This is more for myself now that I've remembered but I painted a viewpoint from the first time I went. Such a magical little park. If you walk into that place and it looks like my painting. You might be ascending to a higher plane, or you might need to see a doctor. 😂 https://files.sovbit.host/media/55c1e16c74c20a688ac2b4688414e140331ccde8f37eb41370a6cc9cfbaa54a5/3dbbc21dea04200c01c2ed12cd9d6363ed816d884aa1ff9e59ff6ba975c59470.webp
Before I understood Bitcoin I was an artist trying to make a living. In key moments I had to make a choice as to what I was going to do . I prefer the satisfied mind I ended up with. https://files.sovbit.host/media/55c1e16c74c20a688ac2b4688414e140331ccde8f37eb41370a6cc9cfbaa54a5/12d286a26ff06b8e964ed33178ae89f3c9ea2feea78c2a05365a166e03286975.webp
Bowing with the deer in Nara, Japan is a pretty cool experience.
https://blossom.primal.net/4b43e67bbc5ee9631f5b11fc3c31b1071195fc9c53d7308a27d33cf582135a06.mov
If you get the time check out kennin-ji dera (temple) you won't be disappointed I think it's my one of my favourite places in Japan.
Cpac and some others.
I went to a Bitcoin Meetup for the first time, my wife wife pushed me to do it! I've got to be honest about the fact I was struggling to find people who saw Bitcoin the way I did.
Lots of people still acting like they will exist today and tomorrow but with much more money. I'll be rich! I'm such a clever boy.
I've realised the way Bitcoin is going to work to really shift us into a new paradigm is habitual and behavioral. And most people won't get it. Many more that get some of it will maybe only get it in hindsight. A strange thought.
Last weekend I visited a nice little town in Tasmania. It's called Richmond a historical place trying to resemble England, I presume, like a convict who was reimagining home without drawings or photographs.
Everything was a bit wobbly, the Gumtrees were scraggly and if you squinted your eyes on this "oldest bridge in Australia" it looked like an impression.
It was not lost on me on this beautiful day, that we had in some way extracted time from the future (especially as a citizen of the west) to visit this untouched town of the past. The melancholia of knowing that I was also more like this old town closer to it in earth history than the system yet to be ushered in by our collective move to Bitcoin.
Everything is more uncertain and sad because I discovered Bitcoin, what it has revealed to me, the implied human misery of our past systems. The implied human misery of my actions today and yet, Bitcoin has also reflected onto me more certainty and hopefulness. As if to say I have had my last drag of the cigarette and I'm not going back.
I've seen this before!
https://files.sovbit.host/media/55c1e16c74c20a688ac2b4688414e140331ccde8f37eb41370a6cc9cfbaa54a5/89658b715a34f482ff14a8eab88c06c7948d103476fd5dfeb591449ef38cfeb3.webp Van Gogh almond blossom
Jeff you speak about how it doesn't matter who you vote for. Even if they understand it there's not much they can do as the systems are opposed. I'm surprised to catch you turning towards the system here. Are we not able to construct a way to transition within each of own countries?
