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Proof of Thought — Bitcoin LYFE Sovereign Sunday Edition C. S. Lewis’s warning about “benevolent” tyranny cuts deeper than most critiques of authority because it exposes the most seductive form of domination: control imposed under the banner of care. When power claims the moral high ground, resistance becomes socially discouraged, and compliance is framed as virtue. This is precisely the psychological terrain where modern governments and financial institutions expand their reach — not through open coercion, but through assurances that they are merely “protecting” the public. Bitcoin breaks that cycle by refusing to participate in paternalism at all. Its rules cannot be softened for convenience, weaponized for political aims, or moralized into exceptions. It treats every user as an adult — capable of custody, responsible for outcomes, entitled to sovereignty. Lewis reminds us that the most dangerous loss of freedom is the one wrapped in kindness; Bitcoin answers by returning responsibility to the individual, shielding economic agency from those who claim to know better. In doing so, it invites a deeper kind of citizenship — one grounded not in permission, but in principle. #bitcoin #sovereignty #Lewis #freedom #selfcustody