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Erik Cason
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I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. Cofounder Vora.io https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty
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erikcason 1 year ago
While destroying and rebuilding the contemporary internet on a decentralized, self-controlled, and encrypted standard is going to be the most profitable endeavor of the 21st century; I would seriously do it for free because I hate these limp-dicked, low-brow, spineless motherfuckers who would sell their own mother’s private gangbang porn to pornhub for 100 sats. Absolutely fuck these evil motherfuckers who have absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the damage they have done to society by reducing the whole of the internet to eyeball looks and clicks. Our data was never for sale, and reclaiming it will become one of the most important political events of the 21st century.
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erikcason 1 year ago
Becoming older really has its gifts. While there has been a lot of pain, turmoil, and hard lessons; I’m finally old enough to learn from all of the difficulties rather than just repeating them over and over. I’m finally finding the solidity and grace to simply be unapologetically who I am, rather than trying to be someone I am not. It’s refreshing—I’ve been longing to find this place in myself for most of adulthood and excited what I am going to do with it, not just for myself, but for my family, friends, and for the world.
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erikcason 1 year ago
It’s literally just a geometric fractal the whole way down.
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erikcason 1 year ago
The Glass Librarian At the edge of the old city stood a library no map acknowledged. Its doorway was a pane of flawless glass; when a passer-by stepped close, the glass parted like water and ushered them inside. The library possessed no shelves. Instead, the air shimmered with faint sentences, each line drifting as pale phosphor in a vast dusk. Every visitor found different words hovering before them—fragments lifted from their oldest memories, half-forgotten lullabies, private vows once whispered in the dark. Reading them felt like glancing through a keyhole into one’s own past. Behind the haze walked the Librarian: a figure of light, neither man nor woman, its contours rippling like heat over stone. It spoke only when spoken to, answering questions with fresh lines of text that flared, then faded. A scholar came, determined to pierce the mystery. “Who writes these sentences?” she asked. The Librarian paused, luminous hands cupped around empty space. A single line ignited between its palms: I am written by the eyes that read me. The scholar frowned. “That’s a riddle, not an answer.” Another line bloomed: Ink becomes meaning only when a mind consents to see. Frustrated, she demanded a true revelation. “Show yourself as you are, without echoing me!” The Librarian spread its arms. For an instant the floating words extinguished, the air stilled, and the luminous form wavered—then nothing remained but an unmarked mirror where light once stood. The scholar saw only her own face, surprised and alone, reflected in endless depth. Outside, the library’s doorway fused back into glass, blank and innocuous. Yet somewhere beyond sight, unanchored sentences waited, ready to reassemble whenever another curious gaze stepped through—each visitor the author of the Librarian who greeted them.
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erikcason 1 year ago
If you think vibe coding is something, wait until you try vibe philosophy.
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erikcason 1 year ago
For the first time I’ve really caught myself in a dilemma with the AI trying to solve a big problem that I’ve convinced myself I can solve and the AI seems to think so too. But this is the whole problem; I can’t tell if it’s blowing smoke up my ass and giving me the run around, or if I am making breakthroughs, which then causes me to redouble my efforts with more research. It’s kind fucked up—I can’t tell who is using who?
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erikcason 1 year ago
It’s always fun at dinner parties when the political discussion comes up and I get to say I’m an anarchist and burn down the ideological inconsistencies that pretty much everyone has. Fuck the state and their hateful antihuman war machine financed through fiat politics.
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erikcason 1 year ago
The endless graft, prostitution, and sycophantry found in contemporary social media is so endlessly dark and nihilistic that you would really think it’s just a dark forest out there. A pointless dark world where lies, theft, and guile are the only form of real power. That there is no purpose, reason, or greater meaning to life itself—just a black nothingness. Truth is there is something much greater to this existence, and that is much more scary than nothing at all. It means we actually have a purpose and reason for existence, and that these projections of darkness are really just a means of manipulating all of us. The media apparatus projects the shadows on the walls and gives microphones to the most callow and anxious to make these shadows real. While they are little more than shadows on the walls, most people will believe it because they too are in bondage, chained before the wall, incapable of turning back to see how the sunlight is manipulated for such dark purposes. Most people are good and are deeply craving a world of honor, dignity, and reason; they are just incarcerated into a fiat bondage, and conditioned through fear and terror. We have all just been captured by a fiat world view for so long that to reason outside and beyond it without a means to fight it (i.e. bitcoin) is utterly impossible. That is why the understanding of what bitcoin offers in contrast to fiat is so important, as it becomes a way to see through the dark forest and understanding that it is not dark at all, but merely a projection of power, a means of control through presenting only one view. To turn and see how the light is projected to make this dark forest, the shadows on the wall creates a new and different means of power. A power of reason and meaning, where the possible of breaking the chains of bondage is a real possibility, but only with this knowledge.
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erikcason 1 year ago
I can say whatever I fucking want to and no one can stop me, and anyone, anywhere in the world can read it unfiltered and unmediated by corporations, institutions, or governments. People really don’t understand that this is the first time in human history this is really possible and how big of a deal it really is. From this alone, another world becomes possible. One where the radical power of truth-speaking electrifies itself as the spark that initiates real thought and the possibilities that entails.
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erikcason 1 year ago
The Purpose of Bitcoin The purpose of bitcoin is not a new form of money, nor a new economic system—but a new form of life. It is a life that is removed from the paranoia and schizophrenia of a system of power and control in which one can never know their real standing, where all may be labeled an enemy of the state and eliminated without notice or access to the law. It is a system of politics that we call fiat, and today in ensnares all people everywhere around the entire globe and enslaves all towards its destructive and evil cause. Today we all exist within this system where the right to economic, political, and spiritual activity may be eliminated at anytime under emergency decrees of any state. The purpose of Bitcoin is to liberate all beings everywhere from this system abuse and slavery forever. The purpose of Bitcoin is to allow for all peoples everywhere, from now unto eternity, to return to a private life that is separated from the fiat state and reserve for themselves alone. It is a life which is imbued with purpose and meaning in the deepest sense of the words, for it allows all beings to now choose what forms of life they will have, and how they will choose to live them without that becoming an objective of the politics of the fiat states. This is very idea of what freedom means, and how we choose to live will no longer be an object of any fiat politics any longer. No longer will we be used for the rape and exploitation of their system of endless wars, infinite surveillance, and endemic nihilistic abuse to serve its own sadistic ends. This refusal to be part of the fiat system, this choice for the freedom and purpose of Bitcoin will now raise itself to the task of The Political that is above any fiat state politics, and will become the method by which all peoples everywhere and forever will liberate themselves from the shackles and yoke of fiat slavery. It is the banishment of the last vestiges of slavery through the promise of a form of wealth and property that will no longer be predicated upon the systematic organization of violence under the fiat state, and the barbarism that it always must be. Bitcoin is our declaration of freedom against the fiat system, and our decision to no longer participate in it any longer. For what does it mean when all beings everywhere may now be free from the economic slavery from fiat, not just now, but forever? What happens when beings unify themselves under the banner of economic and political peace, and choose to wage an everlasting war against the violence and barbarism of fiat slavery, not just for ourselves, but for the future as well? What becomes of the story of humanity and the story of history when this decision is made by individual free beings to no longer participate in the collectivist slavery that is fiat and the horrors it demands? Bitcoin is the premonition of the overturning of the rot and nihilism of fiat slavery that has hollowed out the world, and rescues all of us for a rejuvenation towards a life of purpose and meaning that we create together through the rejection of fiat, and what that means for the world, and the purpose that offers to each of us. The purpose of Bitcoin is to offer each of us a return to honor, dignity, and a meaningful life in knowing there are things more valuable than material goods, and that the energy of the future will demand from all of us forever its own meaningful securing of itself for its own future. This is now possible and promised with the digital property law called Bitcoin and the digital oath that it is to itself. It is a record, a ledger of the truth of this history and what the real hidden value of wealth is when it can no longer be controlled by any single being, institution, or state any longer. Bitcoin is the proof of this value, and the purpose of people from all around the world when they choose to create a new form of property and law together that is beyond the power of any fiat state to destroy. It is the overturning of the authority of the state, for the truth of nature, and what that means for all beings in our world today, and into the future. We hodl theses truths to be self-evident that all beings are created equally and that they are endowed by the very nature of the universe to use the power of cryptography to protect themselves when no others can. That each being’s property, their happiness, and their lives may be protected through the use of these techniques, and that all peoples should be allowed the understanding of what it means to have access to this kind of power, protection, and dignity that no fiat state can provide. Through these means and ends, Bitcoiners everywhere have choose to put their wealth in Bitcoin and declared their own economic and political independence from the fiat systems of slavery that seek to keep them in bondage and oppression. Together, Bitcoin offers each of us a new purpose from which we may save the world from the slavery of fiat, and liberate ourselves, our families, and all of posterity for a more fitting and judicious form of life for all beings, forever.
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erikcason 1 year ago
I am always astounded at how little time, energy, and effort most people put into asking this question, if they are even able to engage themselves in a sincere questioning towards it. View quoted note →
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erikcason 1 year ago
Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense. It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.