Things are always so inverted that you just have to laugh. People have been enslaved for all of human history, & western capitalist cultures were basically the first to abolish the practice in a big way. But capitalism & western culture are somehow most blamed for it. The truth is that "progressive" policies & socialism are actually just modern adaptations of the dependence breeding ideologies that were used by the most successful slave masters. People have been taught to see only a caricature of slavery so that, without the whips & chains, most are unable to identify it. It is shouted that capitalism (the actual freedom to trade & own the fruit of your labor) is evil & somehow the source of slavery, while weeds are sewn to produce a system of ever increasing taxation & the destruction of property rights. In the process, attempts are made to blind you with bribes & handouts because "we just want to help" while they actually make everything harder & steal more of what you earn. This is not an accident, there are people out for power & they mean it. And at the same time there are normies who want to escape responsibility for everything. This is not new, these forces are very old. Together they have inverted wise sayings. They have inverted important stories. They have inverted entire religions. "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" has become "blood is thicker than water." The man who actually recovered money from tax collectors & returned it to those who earned it has become a symbol of parasites who want to "eat the rich." The man who was tortured & crucified for refusing to sacrifice reality & truth to arbitrary authority has become a symbol of self immolation. You are told that sheep shall inherit the earth so that you will make yourself into sheep, and so that the true cowards might feel good about themselves in the process. The pressure comes from the top down & the bottom up at the same time. Self loathing, cowardice, willful ignorance, greed, & a lust for power & status, all align to create a conspiracy of immorality & injustice. Even the word "greed" has been corrupted because the greedy don't want to be easy to name or identify. The only rational meaning has to be: a desire for things unearned with no regard for the costs or those who bear them. But instead people who want to keep what they have worked to EARN are called greedy. Politicians work to choke off competition in an industry while they invest heavily in the companies they allow to live. And while in most cases the corporate leadership is probably in on it with them, anyone who doesn't play ball is demonized as a greedy profiteer. It is literally the degree to which a person is good & right that gets him attacked, while murderers & pedophiles are safe to rise as high as they like. If we want to stop these people, then individual soverignty is a duty. We must be extremely dangerous & also extremely civilized & productive. The ability to unapologetically spread messages that show people reality for what it is, & for us to engage in tax defying counter economic activity with the hardest money to ever exist, are our primary weapons. These are things worth taking seriously. #Bitcoin #Nostr #liberty #grownostr