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Azz azza@nostrplebs.com 4 months ago
The Tower of Babel is not just an old myth. It is a mirror of human nature. Every great human project becomes corrupted from within, twisted by pride and self interest until it collapses under its own weight. Bitcoin is no different. The seeds of Babel are already visible: disinformation pumped by influencers, cult like narratives that serve personal gain, and power games dressed up as ideology. But the fact that creation is subjected to frustration does not mean it has no purpose. Bitcoin will not deliver utopia. No human system ever will. Yet it can still strike blows against the worst injustices of fiat money. It can limit the power of centralised authorities to debase currency, strip wealth, and enslave nations through debt. It is not salvation but it is resistance. And just as Babel scattered into many tongues, we should expect rivals to emerge. Genuine altcoins such as Monero will contend with Bitcoin, not because truth is divided but because human striving inevitably produces multiplicity. That competition itself may be part of the antidote to tyranny. The question is not whether Bitcoin can build a perfect tower to heaven. It cannot and it will not. The question is whether we will use it to confront evil and reduce injustice, or whether we will let pride rot it from the inside until it becomes another Babel, another monument to human folly.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ me@mleku.dev 4 months ago
babel is not a myth. the details of the story are hazy probably because so many people died and so many things burned during its events but around teh same time also was what reads like a description of a meteor strike on the region of sodom and gomorrah. it's not a big stretch to speculate that it's actually both a story of the collapse of a civilization as well as a massive natural disaster. monero is a distraction. we only need one money. monero is basically darkweb zhetons. also, the natural disaster that likely was involved with the story of Babel is probably driven by recurring solar flares and the last one, now increasingly being referred to as the "Tianchi Event" based on the volcanic geological traces of the magnetic pole movement related to a massive swarm of volcanic eruptions around 6000 years ago is probably concurrent with what happened in Babel and Sodom and Gomorrah. when so many people die in a disaster that virtually across the planet there was a loss of some 80-90% of the population, in a lot of cases the survivors are children, who don't have the full grasp of their culture's language and history, and who find other survivors from nearby regions and due to their language differences, develop a hybrid pidgin that eventually becomes a legit language after a thousand years or so. everything about the babel story screams large scale natural disaster to me. not Flood level but big, and we already know that there was multiple locations across the planet about 6000 years ago where there are traces of a massive disaster. tying that also to the breakdown of civil society described in the encounters the people whose story populates Genesis, it likely also concurrently happened that there was a similar kind of society breakdown like we are seeing now. and, for extra bonus points, there is stuff going on with the sun right now that are looking a lot like the early warning signs of a large solar flare event that could cause a similar kind of disaster to occur. possibly even bigger, like Flood scale.
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