"“Love one another.” You hear it all the time. But while it’s nice that it’s said, people don’t do it terribly well. It’s a hard thing for them to hold in mind. They can get serious about it from time to time (and again, a good thing), but doing it consistently eludes most everyone. I think this deserves a moment of our time… if for nothing else than to work through some hypocrisy." #plebchain #blog

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Why “Love One Another” Is Easy To Say But Hard To Do - Free-Man's Perspective

“Love one another.” You hear it all the time. But while it’s nice that it’s said, people don’t do it terribly well. It’s a hard thing f...

Recently a friend sent me a snippet of a conversation he saw in an online #community. It read, Public school attendance is indoctrination in obedience. That’s a stark statement, but what struck me was not its bluntness, but that it has become common. #plebchain #education https://freemansperspective.com/the-times-they-are-a-changin/

Everything we do changes the world, of course, and I remain a strong advocate for kindness. Nonetheless, we need to face the fact that the children’s book version of “be kind and change the world” hasn’t worked. Wars and crime proceed as they have since the Bronze Age, and long years of promoting “be kind” hasn’t changed that a bit. #plebchain #blog #kindness

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Why Kindness Doesn’t Change The World - Free-Man's Perspective

Everything we do changes the world, of course, and I remain a strong advocate for kindness. Nonetheless, we need to face the fact that the children...

People remember Bruce Lee as a fighter or as a movie star. But as it happens, he was also a thoughtful man. Bruce had his gaps and flaws, of course, but he also left behind a lot of useful thoughts. And since so few people know about these ideas, I’ll cover them here. #plebchain #BruceLee #wisdom

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The Wisdom of Bruce Lee - Free-Man's Perspective

People remember Bruce Lee as a fighter or as a movie star. But as it happens, he was also a thoughtful man. Bruce had his gaps and flaws, of course...

#Bitcoin thrives on human virtue. The status quo thrives on human weakness.

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Why Bitcoin Culture Is Better Than The Status Quo - Free-Man's Perspective

As systems, Bitcoin’s culture and the status quo are different to the point of being mutually exclusive. More than that, their difference not...

While most people missed it, there was a thriving #gold economy in the early 2000s. It was centered around e-gold (a system for trading #digital gold) and it involved billions of dollars per year in transactions. #plebchain

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The Missing Gold Economy - Free-Man's Perspective

While most people missed it, there was a thriving gold economy in the early 2000s. It was centered around e-gold (a system for trading digital gold...

I’ve advised people to get and stay out of #debt for a long time, but even so, I didn’t fully understand the affects of debt until the Covid time. #plebchain #blog

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Debt And Compliance - Free-Man's Perspective

I’ve advised people to get and stay out of debt for a long time, but even so, I didn’t fully understand the affects of debt until the Covid tim...

Civilization is produced by us, not by dominance hierarchies with publicity operations. Rulership survives on human vulnerabilities. Civilization survives on human virtues. No matter how much publicity equates rulership with civilization, they are fundamentally opposed. #plebchain #blog

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Civilization Comes From Us - Free-Man's Perspective

Civilization is produced by us, not by dominance hierarchies.  Rulership survives on human vulnerabilities. Civilization survives on human virtues...

Everything “normal” in the Western system trains you to be a placeholder: You are expected to attend the schools to which you’re assigned and complete the necessary programs. By doing that, you can attain a nice slot in the big machine. Then you’ll function in that general capacity, probably for many years. This is called success. You’ll be able to get car loans, a house loan and possibly even 2.1 children. And then, when you’re too old or sick to continue, the machine will drop you out and a new person will be called in to fill your slot. A few years later you’ll die and a few people will say nice things about you. You will have been a placeholder, perhaps a mildly rewarded one, but that’s all. It ain’t enough. #plebchain #blog

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Being A Placeholder Isn’t Enough - Free-Man's Perspective

Everything “normal” in the Western system trains you to be a placeholder: You are expected to attend the schools to which you’re assigned...

The universe, as Julian Assange noted, favors #encryption. #Bitcoin #BTC

Humanity is informed as never before; nothing in the historical record compares. This, unfortunately, is not a particularly good thing. #plebchain #followforfollow #blog #tech

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Information Is Broken - Free-Man's Perspective

Humanity is informed as never before; nothing in the historical record compares. This, unfortunately, is not a particularly good thing. The provisi...

Even if you’re not exactly sure what bourgeois means, you’ve almost certainly noticed that it refers to something bad or embarrassing. But before I explain its actual meaning, I want to turn the tables on it: I will maintain that bourgeois is good. #plebchain #followforfollow #blog

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Bourgeois And Proud - Free-Man's Perspective

Even if you’re not exactly sure what bourgeois means, you’ve almost certainly noticed that it refers to something bad or embarrassing. But befo...

"People sometimes talk about #freedom requiring morality and even #religion. The famous quote along these lines is from John Adams, who wrote that the US constitution was made for “a moral and religious people,” going on to say that it’s unfit for any other kind. Nothing against Mr. Adams, but that passage is a mere assertion. It says nothing about why it might be true that freedom requires a moral populace. Such assertions really ought to be supported, and so far as I’ve seen, they haven’t been. Today I’ll address that void."

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Is It True That Only Moral People Can Be Free? - Free-Man's Perspective

People sometimes talk about freedom requiring morality and even religion. The famous quote along these lines is from John Adams, who wrote that the...

The existence of absolute standards threatens a great deal of modern power, and so has long been ridiculed and excluded from consideration. Reality, however, cannot be changed, and the fact is that we all act for life and against death. So does every other living thing on this planet. That makes life and death absolute and objective standards.

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Yes, There Are Objective Standards - Free-Man's Perspective

The existence of objective standards threatens entrenched positions, and so has been excluded from consideration in many circles. Reality, however,...

We all lived through four years of intimidation and fear. It has subsided now, but most people haven’t processed what has happened… they haven’t sorted and settled things inside themselves. #Blog #Covid19 #plebchain

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Everyone Got It Anyway - Free-Man's Perspective

As the year 2020 arrived, we were living and thinking as we had been in 2019, 2018 and 2017. There was plenty of fear and outrage in the world, but...

Cypherpunks used to say that “You can’t put a bullet through a math problem,” and they were quite right to do so. Fundamentally, Bitcoin’s foundation is as strong as the proposition that two plus two equals four. #Bitcoin #BTC

Excellence is attainable, and by every healthy person. I received this lesson from a man I never met, named Earl Nightingale. Today I’m passing it along to you. #SelfImprovement #Education #Blog

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30 Minutes To Excellence - Free-Man's Perspective

Excellence is attainable, and by every healthy person. I received this lesson from a man I never met, named Earl Nightingale. Today I’m passing i...

"I learned long ago that when institutions decide to ride a subject, they can do so for a long time. By endless repetition people are worn down into compliance, and then into defense of their compliance. I’ve seen it too many times. And so, seeing them harping on “Bitcoin isn’t environmentally friendly,” I feel a need to defend reality, before it’s overrun yet again." #Bitcoin #Plebchain https://freemansperspective.com/what-about-environmental-concerns-over-crypto-mining/

"Given that nearly everyone is a moral obsessive, and given that we all refer, more or less, to the golden rule as a point of reference, how come there’s still so much immorality in the world? The answer is that there really isn’t." #plebchain #morality #blog

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Our Moral Obsession - Free-Man's Perspective

Humans are moral obsessives. Anywhere you go, you’ll find people speaking in moral terms: “He didn’t treat me right,” “She’s arrogant,�...

#Bitcoin changes the incentives that have distorted the shape of modern society. #plebchain

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Society: Bitcoin Fixes This - Free-Man's Perspective

There’s a common refrain that “Bitcoin fixes this.” Sometimes it’s used well and other times less so (it would often be more accurate to sa...