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The American Revolution | Ken Burns | PBS

The American Revolution | All Episodes Now Streaming | Ken Burns | PBS

Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States. Stream the full documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Botste...

It’s hitting me again in this chapter of Bitcoin adoption we find ourselves in why so many continue to be militantly against Bitcoin (even ones you may say they *should* be for it! Like I used to say about progressives). If you believe the state is redeemable and that government, central banks, politicians, etc are capable of handling money, rights and freedoms, then you see no need for Bitcoin. In fact you may ideological or quite literally fight against something like Bitcoin because you fear it means: 1) you’re wrong about your assumptions of government and central banks being the best and honest actors for money 2) you fear advocating for or support of bitcoin will destroy your notions of government and banks and do not want to see this happen And many working against Bitcoin view it and Bitcoiners as a threat to the status quo, and as I’ve said before many go so far as to suggest we *want* governments and central banks to fail. This is not the case at all. We just have eyes and ears, follow incentives, and are highly skeptical (based on historical events 100% of the time) that they are the best actors to be in charge of money and permission-based structures. We say even if governments improve, it’s not worth the risk of asking permission and trusting they won’t constantly steal, change the rules, and prevent us from transacting. We are building parallel structures because the current ones have been failing and the only way they continue is if more and more power is taken from the people and centrally concentrated to the government (and banks). No thanks!

I can’t really hide or pretend that I can define the mission, scope and uniqueness of Bitcoin without invoking anarchism Bitcoin (really Bitcoiners, right?) believing and saying things like opt out, peaceful revolution, rules not rulers, is entirely within and complementary to an anarchical framework and worldview In society today both Bitcoin and anarchism have terrible connotations for normies. This post inspired by Graeber’s wonderful little read:

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” - Thomas Paine I think we’re way past the “intolerable one” phase for most of the world. Nearly every founding father and contributor wanted a small gov’t, and one by the people for the people. If they saw what we have today…my god. What would they think of their revolution and experiment?

Happy 250th anniversary to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” It argues that the American colonies should break from British rule because monarchy is irrational, inherited power is unjust, and people are fully capable of governing themselves. “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”

1776: Paine, Common Sense (Pamphlet) | Online Library of Liberty

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The more I use LLMs and the more I see how people engage and interact in social media The more I see how humans are so special, and made in the image of God. We are God’s greatest act. Humanity. Our souls. And how we live and engage with one another — that is the root of our humanity. More and more non-human tools emerge, and it becomes glaringly obvious the soullessness of this technology. Personally I don’t fear it — there is literally no comparison to it or its “intelligence” and humanity. Humans have souls and access to Truth that is incomprehensible to technology like LLMs. The issue is, people need to be reminded of this. They attempt too much to run from their souls. Run from pursuing Truth and Goodness. We are trying so hard to shed our very nature. That is more scary to me than any technological hellscape future you can envision.