nigma
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I would like to bring some hope to some of the recent discussion. I think it only takes a few individuals in a society who stand their ground, to start turning the ship around. People have been anticipating a techno-authoritarian surveillance control system and building technologies to defend against the onslaught for decades. Technologies like online private websites and browsing (TOR), private money/banking (bitcoin), cryptography (PGP), home servers for hosting services like encrypted chat, photo storage, passwords, etc. Most online cloud based data storage can be decentralized and run from home. Get connected to the communities who are implementing these technologies and start participating.
If you want a good background on some of this, here is a good documentary series available for free View:
View: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBuns9Evn1w-T2RwqMhUnTZbTTe-M-g42
some links for those interested:
www.start9.com
www.bitcoin.org (please avoid all "trading bitcoin" videos on youtube, bitcoin is not about trading, its about op-out money)
Also the book written in the 90s, The Sovereign Individual predicted how politics and society would be reshaped by the technology of the microprocessor, they predicted the end of governments as we know it. They saw large centralized governments as we have now crumbling and being eventually replaced by city states, i.e. smaller and more numerous governments, decentralisation. The book predicted the emergence of an internet cryptographic money that was outside of government that was critical to this decentralisation process. Amazing since bitcoin was only published in 2009.
Anyway, in my mind the future is bright and I believe there is much to be hopeful for. Money is really where the control is, once the people have access to good money, that is not able to be devalued, or transactions censored, we will see the ship turning around. It is actually already happening. In Nigeria for example 30% of the population uses bitcoin even though the government banned it.
Ray Peat interested folk have usually taken responsibility of their own health.
Bitcoin interested folk likewise have taken responsibility of their own wealth/money.
If you want a good background on some of this, here is a good documentary series available for free View:
View: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBuns9Evn1w-T2RwqMhUnTZbTTe-M-g42
some links for those interested:
www.start9.com
www.bitcoin.org (please avoid all "trading bitcoin" videos on youtube, bitcoin is not about trading, its about op-out money)
Also the book written in the 90s, The Sovereign Individual predicted how politics and society would be reshaped by the technology of the microprocessor, they predicted the end of governments as we know it. They saw large centralized governments as we have now crumbling and being eventually replaced by city states, i.e. smaller and more numerous governments, decentralisation. The book predicted the emergence of an internet cryptographic money that was outside of government that was critical to this decentralisation process. Amazing since bitcoin was only published in 2009.
Anyway, in my mind the future is bright and I believe there is much to be hopeful for. Money is really where the control is, once the people have access to good money, that is not able to be devalued, or transactions censored, we will see the ship turning around. It is actually already happening. In Nigeria for example 30% of the population uses bitcoin even though the government banned it.
Ray Peat interested folk have usually taken responsibility of their own health.
Bitcoin interested folk likewise have taken responsibility of their own wealth/money.