Is it possible to be radicalised by a community that you deem to not be radical enough?
There are probably plenty of examples of this, so I should try and stay humble and maintain perspective. The proto-fascist desire for pure orthodoxy has corrupted many a mind.
Most of what I see are people who miss the point, contrarians who blindly oppose ideas beyond their context, chuds and reactionaries and NPC bots.
But, like they say, if everyone you meet is an asshole, then you're the real asshole, so the question I should ask is "what am I really?" rather than judging others.
Hard to say.
I just love the fact that degenerate gambling fiat-brained altcoiners are funding Bitcoin's security budget with this spam attack, proving both its long term viability and the pointlessness of altcoins.
I just don't get what the hell they get out of it.
Watching the halving countdown on mempool.space and I can't help but wonder about those transactions of small amounts of corn, with the massive fees. Like, sending $70 worth but paying a fee of $6000 just doesn't make any sense in any way.
I always assume it's some ordinals/nft junk, or miners batching their own transactions or something like that; I'm kinda good not knowing honestly, but a part of me likes to believe that every transaction is a legitimate, organic p2p transfer, and this really breaks the illusion.
Anyways, history in the making, 4 blocks away, LFG!
Shitting on "the algorithm" is all fine and good because of course, it is simply a mechanism for control, and can very much end up warping the minds of the unsuspecting.
However, I do love when it randomly, serendipitously, tunes you in to something you really needed to see.
This guy's channel was one of those times; lots of overlap with the Bitcoiner's ethos, breaking dependency on the state and its hierarchical systems of abstraction, and building a connection with the land.
Felt it here in Korea. Just a little rumble, but when you're sitting way up in a little concrete box on stilts it definitely makes you aware of how fragile it all is.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take at Wayne Gretzky, if you want to kill him
- me
keep us posted. Dreaming of a life not dominated by the state and its economy occupies my mind a lot these days.
Of course the dreams centre around Bitcoin and its revolutionary potential, but also on the sheer amount of work required to make these dreams reality. All kinds of work, but most especially the kind of intellectual work required to be an engaged citizen and not the protelarianised consumer that most of us have been conditioned to be.
And work is hard, especially when you feel your chances of success are low, based on how you have been conditioned to view the world and your place in it. Much easier to just go with the flow and enjoy the (rapidly diminishing) quality of life that historical accumulations of capital have afforded us.
I hope to begin my own citadel-building journey in 2025; it's both the terrifying and thrilling prospect of a new world.
#nostr : "the jank is the message"
X promotes asymmetrical class warfare, but thankfully not for much longer, as king Cantillionaire destroys capital nearly as fast as he conjured it.
Cheers Zapmaster! I will happily be your zap-peon and zap it forward.
Fuck Twitter. Nothing associated with Musk will ever benefit humanity, and therefore Bitcoin cannot be associated with Twitter.
Musk will be remembered as some kind of techno-Madoff for a moment, but Bitcoin has only just begun to transform the world for the better.
Young'ns doin' murder for clout then post it on they page,
the CIA gave us crack, Instagram, and AIDS.
I'm so fucking addicted to reddit and youtube, but otherwise am off social media.
Aspire to be BONO one day but am just not at that place now. That's why Bitcoin is so important though: to give one the freedom to break dependencies and do the right thing.
A lot of people know that the world is fucked and hate the position that they find themselves trapped in, but they literally can't imagine a way out. At least we can see the light.
Stealth QE in full effect already. NYCB gonna fail (considered the most conservative bank because most of its balance sheet is filled up with NYC real estate, ie. considered prime assets that will only appreciate) after they were given a golden handshake deal to take over Signature Bank's assets when the Fed let them fail in 2023.
Fuckers gonna keeping fuckin' but I'm going with plan B. God knows what else is comin' down the pipe from our trickle-down shit lords.
I'm not tired of winning yet sir.
I think that most obvious reason why schools don't encourage any kind of awareness of monopolies or the inherent underlying class logic in monetary policy, is that they are essentially factories of proletarianisation, which serve the state's interests by protecting their monopoly on both monetary policy and violence, and their bastard offspring, taxation.
Demonstrating the illegitimacy of the state's monetary policies undermines the legitimacy of the state, which is itself just a loose network of institutions monopolised by the ruling classes to protect their ability to accumulate capital, both material and cultural. Public schools, and universities for that matter, through the effect of class pressures during a period where all strata of society have access to education, have been instrumental in keeping the lower classes in their places by propagating the myth of "capitalist realism". This is done by reframing the purpose of education and shifting the focus of its goals, away from producing civic-minded and politically active citizens, and toward producing an army of drones willing to slot themselves into whatever sector of the economy they deem to be most viable. The historical and socioeconomic forces that have influenced education in the past hundred years or so are inextricably tied to class dynamics, and so are obviously complex, wide-reaching, and the particulars may vary from region to region, but the globalised nature of capital means that its monopolisation, produced through proletarianisation, is a universal, if often unacknowledged, phenomenon.
As an aside, though very much related, I've been thinking a lot these days about an old Philip K. Dick short story (can't recall the name of it) about a guy who worked at a kind of interplanetary customs' house, whose job it was to inspect alien products for their suitability for the consumers of earth. One day they receive an alien-made children's board game that he and his co-workers become increasingly fixated on, but which seemingly amounts to nothing more than a simple game of resource accumulation and domination, you know, typical prosocial goals. The end of the story reveals however, in a major twist which unveiled the insidious nature of the game, that he hadn't read the rules of the game and that they had been playing it incorrectly the whole time: the real rules encouraged players to divest themselves of all their resources and thereby undermine the power of earth's establishment in order to make them more vulnerable to an invasion. I didn't really think too much about it when I read it some 20 years or so ago, aside from the basic allusions it made to cold war era politics and the fact that it was really creepy, but today I can't help but think how prescient and accurate it was in describing the perpetual class war and its co-production and appropriation by the state for its own war machine.
Yes we had "The Landlord's Game" become commodified and distributed en masse as "Monopoly", which entirely subverted and re-purposed the intent of the original, but the real conspiracy was infinitely more vast than the effect that a single board game would have on children's minds. The entire premise of education has become a vehicle by which successive generations are trained against defending their own interests, and are instead inculcated with the necessity of defending the system designed only to exploit them. But the most insidious and frightening part is that you can't just attribute the conspiracy to some foreign or alien forces that seek the downfall of some specific nation, or even humanity writ large, because it's simply the unfolding of the same class war that has informed civilization since such a concept has existed: a group of people works together to accumulate resources, uses the accumulated material surpluses to become dominant over increasingly large territories while simultaneously dividing itself into dominant and subaltern classes, and eventually develops systems of abstractions which become cultural and national identify, which is itself simply another means of defending the domination of territory and the lower classes.
Anyways, I hope I contributed to discussion in some way here. Whenever I take the time to thoughtfully type out a take on a serious topic that has been rattling around in my own brain for a while and it comes out like a wall of text, I feel like it comes across as ranting and raving, but some subjects just need a lot of words to do them justice! Thanks for reading.
everyone will "get" Bitcoin at the time that they deserve; it's a wonderful system
Every single self-custodied sat is a fuck you to the cantillionaires and their rent-seeking cartels around the world.
There's still so much work that needs to be done, but it's great to have an actionable path forward.
