Wait, did we just start Mad Men roleplay, or are you a sexist asshole? Don't answer that, just remain silent and hold your head in shame.

Violent protest? Not exactly accurate reporting there, Walter Kronkite.

Yes, loads of people are Asian! In fact, there are more of them than any other race.

No. It's only the criminal way when you get caught.

"Take the money and run" is the capitalist way, and that's an insight to why the system is verging on collapse today.

Slaves! Where are my glorious bitslaves?

What's a guy gotta do to get some slaves in the 21st century, buy a friggen prison?! Or a factory in China? I can't afford that!

Bitcoin will continue to gain value so long as three things remain true:

-Supply is scarce (21 million btc)
-Energy (for mining) is scarce (no infinite free energy technology)
-Capitalism is the method by which we distribute goods and resources

Of these three, only the demise of capitalism is probable in our lifetime.

Why are people still paying money for porn in the age of Xhamster, youporn, and redtube?

It's for everyone, and will benefit the poor disproportionately. Lucky them.

Almost no one cares. Almost everyone feels entitled to the benefits, but almost no one considers the (usually externalized) costs.

Institutionalized is just a clever euphemism for indoctrinated. This is abusing language to avoid facing the obvious ethical horror of socially engineering children during formative years.

You have been lied to your whole life, by people who have been lied to their entire lives, and so on, generation after generation, because of a continued failing of basic ethics.

On the long view, any time you accept fiat in exchange for control over any quantity of bitcoin, you have made a poor decision both ethically and financially.

You have accepted violence-backed fiat scrip, thereby tacitly endorsing its legitimacy and value. In doing so you make our world a more violent and less democratic place.



To be crystal clear, I am arguing that as bitcoin (and geopolitics) downsizes fiat marketcaps by orders of magnitude, the more democratic and less violent the affected societies will become.

The field of psychology has always been deeply political* in nature, the DSM is extremely political. Not so long ago you had "female hysteria" and "homosexuality" classified in there as mental diseases. Still today you have farcical diagnoses such as "oppositional defiant disorder" which roughly translates to "a disobedient child more intelligent than one or both of his/her parents", or the simple result of shitty parenting.

Psychiatrists, at their core are glorified behavior cops. You'd never see a child brought in to a psych because he was TOO obedient for his parents liking. If we lived in a society that was concerned about fascism (in a post 2001 America, we should be!), you would see that happening. You will only ever see a child brought into a mental health professional because he was too DISobedient.

Speaking as an American here, ask yourself, reader, why are we so terrified of disobedience, but not at all bothered by pandemic hyper-obedience, even in the face of a society bordering on collapse?

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
― Oscar Wilde

http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf -> ctrl + f "social engineering"

* Political bias is the disease of all the softer sciences. Only pure mathematics escapes such politicization.

Bitcoin benefits new yorkers in the same manner in benefits everyone else - by making the world a less violent place.

All of us. All capitalists are mad, it is the mostly obscured but ever-present violence that makes us this way. Here I will provide three choice quotes from one of my favorite intellectuals, Michel Foucault.

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”

“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”

Longer than you, OP.

If time travel was possible in the future, we'd know it by now.

Domino effect no matter how this plays out, things will be ugly.

For most people on the planet today, the world already is shit. If it's not to you, congratulations now check your privilege. For the billions of poor, global capitalism is sucking the life from them.

Not so long ago the average person would believe that the loss the Divine Right of the King, and subsequent (ongoing) slow death of religion would be "the world going to shit". All the fruits of the age of reason would have been forsaken if the nobles and priests of the middle ages could have prevented the failure off Divine Right.

They could not prevent progress then, just as the banksters (our modern "nobles") can't stop bitcoin or the slow death of capitalism in our generation.