Nothing else is being attempted, whether admitted or not, than the complete transformation, even the weakening and suppression of the individual: the supporters of the majority never tire of enumerating and anathematising all that is bad, hostile, lavish, expensive, and luxurious in the form of individual existence. # 132
"Increasing interdependencies multiply the power sources in society which cannot be politically controlled" - Luhmann, Trust and Power
Hence, the isolationist bitcoiner who stomps his feet about the future world does little to actively impose his will onto the world beyond his trifling consumptive activities.
Heading to Riga, Latvia
Traveling throughout Eastern Europe a bit, and will probably also go by Berlin and London
Anyone interested in meeting, feel free to reach out
A high time preference
A low time preference
What if I prefer to not think in time or history at all?
Perhaps only then could the future ever be mine
What if by Jevons paradox, the sociocybernetic purpose of trust minimization is a path to restoring opportunities to trust?
There is something quite funny about the distruster who cultivates the feeling of cleverness to supplant confronting the existential narcissim of objective value in oneself from which the sense of indignity festers. You think you have "rights"? 😂
Type of people who never rode close to the edge
"the distruster, willingly or unwillingly, can hardly avoid his distrust being perceived in him and attributed to him. Hostile feelings are difficult to keep hidden, and the cautious defences which now seem necessary, betray the intention."
If they paid in bitcoin they might have understood possession is 9 10ths of the law
And the world remained wary of the Bitcoin
And the Bitcoiner remained weary of the world
Occasionally, the curiosity of individuals on either side got the best of them, and they would go out and say "hello!" with a beaming smile of possibilities, with something the other deemed to be of some value, and so it went
You would destroy all trust in the world without ever having taken the time to understand its purpose? To distrust trust in its totality... isn't that the same cavalier dismissiveness with which nocoiners often approach bitcoin? Perhaps Niklas Luhmann has a more refined understanding than yours?
We all knew the Club Orange guy living in California is merely a leftist scenester
He kicked me out of the canadian bitcoiner group chat for not being faggy LARPers with them 🤷♂️
What if AI enables market tools that are so incredibly good at solving the double coincidence of wants, it crashes and permanently reprices the market for money itself by 80%?
Bitcoiners: we must return to a high trust society
Also Bitcoiners: Don't trust-
What?
Bitcoin as a hazing ritual to find other humans willing and inclined to become bitcoiners
Increasingly considering that bitcoin largely is in the present primarily about friends made along the way.
Thinking about humans as primary rather than machines, one can consider bitcoin a Schelling point for a population of actors capable of locally operating with higher in-network trust than the rest of the world. Can bitcoiners rebuild high trust society? -- alas, bitcoiners are without a goal, for they have substituted goals for the sacrificial meta-goal abstractive recursion of "Bitcoin itself."
Coming soon to an anarcho-tyranny near you
"Even we nowadays are hard and mercilous to political revolutionists, but that is because we are in the habit of believing the state a necessity..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human #102
Allow me to present an idea
The notion of "bitcoiner" as an identity is recently deceased, and this underpins the malaise? We all of course new this day was coming, but who knew it would come so soon!
Is the typical bitcoiner now The Man Without Qualities?
Will there be a 2nd honest man amongst bitcoiners?
I am already the 1st bitcoiner Nietzschean it would seem, thus capable of speaking the truth: anti-statism is anti-worldism
