I’m a good ways into The Belief Machine and it is exceptional. I found this book exactly when I was meant to find it; it’s really landing. @₿ cuz thank you for sharing this with the world 🙏🏻 And having your newborn nap in your arms while you read a great book is just the best feeling. Grateful 🙏🏻

We’re considering homeschooling our son because we don’t want his framework for the world grown from a control system. By control system I mean.. The State being a vessel to impose monetary theft via the military industrial complex and now the technocratic surveillance state; the education system being designed so you never question the system and mindlessly comply with whatever function is needed of you. My son will not inherit an allegiance to the State, be benchmarked by credentialed authorities, or herded into consumerism and debt. What took me 33 years to (mostly) unlearn, won’t even register for him. I’m so excited to see his life unfold in that world.

Money is the essence of politics. How much is collected, how much is printed, and how it gets distributed. That makes Bitcoin the most political act we can engage in. A rejection of their money and plundering entirely. Their politics mean nothing to us because they can’t take it, they can’t print it, and can’t redistribute it. Our political regime is one of individual sovereignty where we run code that cannot break its oath to us, so long as we run it.

The conditioning for a Digital 9/11 is happening right now; laying the groundwork to usher the masses into digital concentration camps. It’s likely the event will have a financial twist that sneaks in a bailout and onboards everyone to some variation of a CBDC. Because that will be necessary to keep the fiat game going. And in the fog of war, many will think they were “helping” just like the horrors of the 20th century.

The widely parroted idea of transitioning from a Fiat Standard to a Bitcoin Standard is a psyop; an idea that only exists when applying fiat control system beliefs to Bitcoin. Once you adopt Bitcoin as a sovereign individual, the idea of a “Standard” is vaporized. “Standard” is language used by control systems to manage the Overton window and, in this case, keep serfs waiting for permission to be free.

The exponential nature of technological progress kills fiat money and replaces it with a technocratic control grid that selectively grants abundance to those who serve the beast. But I won’t be serving the beast, I’ll be starving it. Starving it of my money, information, and identity from within a cryptographic citadel.

Ironic that most modern conveniences that are “free” do not make you free at all. In fact, they do the opposite. That’s the hidden cost.

Benevolent people in a malevolent system caused the horrors of the 20th century and will do the same in the 21st century, just digitally. And like the 20th century, all the horrors will be “legal”. Conversely, individuals contributing their time and energy to systems of freedom and abundance will create the bloom of the 21st century. These actions will most certainly be deemed “illegal”.

At the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole is the gift of just Being. Free of the State’s mind control, fiat’s invisible shackles, and the need for others to understand your newfound perspective. Just Being with people you love and doing things that bring you joy. Surrounded by amazing technology but not controlled by it. A total dissolution of the modern fiat illusion.

I just had such a cool moment. Months ago when Square rolled out BTC payments, I asked one of my favorite shops if they could take BTC. After 3 failed attempts where they couldn’t figure it out, I stopped asking. Today I walk in and hear “Hey! We accept Bitcoin now! Wanna try it? I know you mentioned it before.” The payment worked flawlessly and the cashier’s face lit up at how easy it was. Their first BTC payment. I said nothing more because the whole exchange spoke for itself. This is what adoption looks like. Thanks @jack !

Listening to Mamdani on Theo’s pod this morning. The path is inevitable. They’re coming for all the wealth and anybody who objects to government control of everything. Then the right will go all out fascist in response. Both sides will be correct from their perspective because neither has questioned the fiat foundation from which the zero-sum game originates. Because all of their thoughts originate from the system designed to never be questioned.

Drum up a bunch of fear about A.I. Create a regulatory moat and monopoly with the blessing of the citizens. Create a public-private partnership where the state gets their surveillance and the A.I. firms get their perpetual profits. Print an obscene amount of money to offset the deflationary pressure. Total chaos. Bitcoin Standard.