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Kevin Alfred Strom
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Writer, publisher, broadcaster, free thinker. Our destiny is in the stars. Was at https://twitter.com/kevin_a_strom since 2014, terminated under Musk in 2023 within hours of an ADL demand. I prefer to use NOSTR, but I am also sometimes found on https://gab.com/kevinstrom Mathematics, physics, and genetics are the real words of God.

Most interesting. I came up with a similar quip a couple of decades ago: Mathematics, physics, and genetics are the real words of God.

Naturally, any truthful list of victims of Communism would include a substantial number of National Socialists, since it was the National Socialists who led the fight against Communism at a time when Churchill and Roosevelt were doing everything they could to help Stalin. The great Russian patriot, General Andrey Vlasov, even raised a million-strong Russian army to fight with Germany against Stalin. Shamefully, today's Russia denounces Vlasov and praises Stalin.

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Naturally, any truthful list of victims of Communism would include a substantial number of National Socialists, since it was the National Socialists who led the fight against Communism at a time when Churchill and Roosevelt were doing everything they could to help Stalin. The great Russian patriot, General Andrey Vlasov, even raised a million-strong Russian army to fight with Germany against Stalin. Shamefully, today's Russia denounces Vlasov and praises Stalin.

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[New Podcast] Ideas From the Edge: High Strangeness, Memetics, & the Open Source Insurgency w/ Jack Heart

https://fountain.fm/episode/Yq7TAbg6t2BLvdCqGLyM

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-strangeness-memetics-and-the-open-source-insurgency/id1731637285?i=1000672400114

https://hivemindvc.substack.com/p/high-strangeness-gnosticism-memetics

This was a fun one! In most recent episodes, I’ve had conversations with builders from the Nostr/Bitcoin community about other rabbit holes they’re interested in. In today’s episode, I sat down with Jack Heart, a longtime blogger and veteran of high strangeness and esoteric rabbit holes galore.

Although we focus primarily on themes from Jack’s blog and recent book, we do spend some time discussing the principles of Nostr and how they align with Jack’s view of building an open source insurgency. I’m hoping to do more conversations with thinkers like Jack from communities philosophically adjacent to Nostr.

You can learn more about Jack’s work on his blog, Tekgnostics, and in his new book, Brave Noo World: A Guerrilla Ethnography of High Strangeness.

Here are some of the other topics we cover:

- High strangeness and the acceleration of technology, society, and novelty

- Tekgnostics - a balance of artifact and epiphany

- J. Allen Hynek - coined the term high strangeness

- The origin of "Foo Fighters" - UFOs

- Cosmic triggers - the atomic bomb - UFO craze after the war - term - UFO coined after lights over Mt. Ranier

- 2012 as omega point for Terence McKenna and the Mayans

- High strangeness going mainstream as dominant paradigm: politicians calling each other weird

- Synchronicity as meaningful coincidence

- Vernor Vinge’s singularity and the end of the human era

- Humor as the highest and most human form of intelligence and the great weapon against bureaucracy

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere as the omega point of human thought and the next layer of biosphere

- Humans will ultimately be all right because of our creativity

- Humans are tool and model builders

- Early internet was the first model of the hivemind

- Nostr and gnostic — a happy synchronicity ;)

- Digital evolution and DNA

- Philip K Dick’s view of DNA as a binary system of memory coils which gnosis allows us to read

- The workaround - humans’ core ability to adapt to whatever circumstances

- Jung and the ability to catch ideas from the noosphere

- The Buddha is in the Park

- Discordianism: seriousness vs humor - don’t take the world too seriously

- Humor is the highest form of intelligence; perhaps AI will struggle to mimic or understand humor

- “When I dress like a clown, the cops won’t hit me”

- The clown and jester archetype; the fool and the trickster (Prometheus , Krishna?)

- Meme magic and memetics as mind virus

- Memes are a big reason Trump won in 2016 (Pepe the frog)

- The open source / decentralized insurgency

- The ebb and flow of everything

- Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, chakras, and the 8 brain model of psychology

- Crowdfunding a billboard for Brazil all over nostr

- Nostr as the open source / decentralized insurgency against bureaucracy

- PKD and blows against the empire

- Bureaucracy lacks a sense of humor

- Gnosticism as the mystic arm of Christianity

- The great Yin/Yang, masculine/feminine, binary dichotomy of the universe

- Why something instead of nothing (manifest vs. unmanifest)?

- The mythology of Ancient Civilizations - civilizations rise and fall all the time

- Creating substrates for data redundancy and preventing human amnesia (Nostr/Project Alexandria)

Fun listening. Some pretty wild stuff in the mix there. I do agree that we can and should utilize humor and the power of the fantastic (think fiction, and simplified versions of our ideas for the masses, and perhaps even Tolkeinesque or Olympian myth, among other things) to advance the cause of disempowering the money-creators. However, there are dangers there: 1) actually starting to believe in the myths we made up, however poetic and beautiful they might be; and/or 2) attracting so many followers (who really do literally believe in the magic/simplified stories and understand little else) that they take over our (presently beautifully scientific and factual) movement and make it into one more emotion-laden, irrational religion; and/or 3) becoming yet another cynical cult, in which the leaders know the myths aren't true, but vend them with fake sincerity to millions of followers. In all of these scenarios, the core of what we want and need could be lost.

True. Convert to aquamarines and rubies (pretty seashells for small quantities), transmit, reconvert. Or don't.

The whole "licensed money transmitter" concept is ridiculous -- I would say _hilariously_ ridiculous if it weren't for the fact that the bastards are putting good people in horrific prisons using it as an excuse. The main purpose of money is to transmit it, for the gods' sake!

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Forget seeing replies from muted people in full in notifications; now stuff is visible on their profile as well instead of “this user is muted.”

The app still recognizes the person is muted and gives the option to “unmute user.”

I don’t call any of this being muted 😅 100% broken.

The poor dears!

I usually avoid clichés "like the plague," but there is one that is so apropos to our situation. I will adapt it slightly to today's reality: He who creates the money makes the rules.

Touching an old coin is like shaking the hands of 10,000 men and women of past generations, who lived and worked and loved in societies vastly different from our own. I'll never forget being a preteen and finding a 1911 dime in a pile of sand next to my uncle's house in Minneapolis.

Communism may be regarded as a Christian heresy. Both say that all humans and human groups are, and ought to be, inherently equal. Ancestry, tribe, and race mean nothing -- only whether you are "washed in the blood" of Christ, or proletarian revolution (which is itself a kind of fulfilment of the prophecy of "the last shall be first"), or not. Jews are central to both systems. Of course, Communism dispenses with the overtly supernatural element, but its "equality" precepts are equally hallucinatory and devoid of evidence.

The rivers from the Danube to the Yangtze still run red with the blood of people who thought they "wanted" Communism.

Peoples who open their borders soon cease to exist. Quite similar to the (naturally nonexistent) cells who discard their membranes. "No DNA is illegal! Welcome pathogens!"

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For every fiction podcast nostr:npub1e2rd2k45ym2jmctnysfadxumrvrr57vqj69ck6trt2y62c40r0kqs9lx8t recommend, I will counter with another podcast episode from the Mises Institute.

This one has only been queued up so I haven’t listened yet, but it sounds interesting. Possibly also relevant insofar as refining the framing of ideas is likely to improve argumentation.

Going in I’m personally more in agreement with the Hoppe position, though I don’t think the case is as rock-solid as some influencers might argue.

https://fountain.fm/episode/tROB9ZX5bFarn4wFMJrj

#mises

#misesinstitute

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Peoples who open their borders soon cease to exist. Quite similar to the (naturally nonexistent) cells who discard their membranes. "No DNA is illegal! Welcome pathogens!"

Bitcoin has many of the good qualities of religion -- uniting for a common purpose, building a sense of community, encouraging virtue, fostering good leadership -- all without requiring us to believe in the palpably untrue. Excellent!

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The rivers from the Danube to the Yangtze still run red with the blood of people who thought they "wanted" Communism.