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Well, your story is much more serious than my wanting to hear a boy and girl story.
And, yeah, those items are important, but I am not really in the mood for politics or trying to engage in any kind of serious activism. It's not like you can do a lot during a state of an emergency, until the emergency starts to subside. So, I was just hoping for a more basic scenario, but you are wanting to solve world problems or at least attempt to battle, which is not where I am at, currently.
Well...with Passover and the Holiday..not to mention 4 weeks of pandemic lockdown...my current cocaine and hooker stories are in short supply I am loathe to admit..I will get back to you in a few weeks and see what we can do. Fair enough?
I have had quite the week as well..honestly its been very stressful. I am not sure where I derailed on the story really...but I felt some of the writers block I have been experiencing lift and well..words just started to flow.
I hope I didnt bring you down to much Juan.. Keep thy chin up..there yet remains hope.
#stronghands
I will concede that with some of the recent overall market panic, and the various emergency measures, I had been starting to become a bit overly preoccupied with some of the shrinking bitcoin liquidity avenues. Just a year ago, or so, we had all kinds of ways that individuals could contact each other to attempt to negotiate a deal to directly transact their bitcoins, and they (we) were using local bitcoin's as a means to accomplish that. But, that avenue has largely dried up in a lot of locations, and really seems to be threats from BIG government. So, yeah, I have my fears as well, and yeah, various aspects of KYC/AML and even efforts at individuals to report their holdings, including exchanges seemingly forced into chain analysis and trying to blacklist coins (coin joins, etc), a lot of the burdens are bullshit, and the various burdens may either drag BTC prices down or may encumber its various use cases in a lot of ways, yet I am thinking that it is NOT very productive for me to get all psychologically worked up about the so many burdens upon bitcoin, but instead maybe to consider that there are likely ways forward including considering what I am going to do with my bitcoin in the event that I still choose to hold bitcoin and to consider bitcoin to be valuable in the present and/or its future prospects (sure I can consider both short term, medium term and long term value).
Anyhow, sure I am also interested in the human interaction and imagining some cute girl in the picture, because sometimes the stories of the earliest interactions are both strange and exciting. But, I am NOT going to stop considering what the fuck are my various bitcoin liquidation options. When I got into bitcoin in late 2013, I considered to try to consider what are my various BTC liquidation options, and surely if some of the liquidation options either disappear or become more encumbered, I become a bit more stressed out, and yeah, maybe my libido will go too, and I will no longer consider the tears of the cute girl or whatever other fluids she might be leaking.... damned corona virus.. gotta think about my short term, will I be breathing, selfie.
So, been thinking pretty hard...
When exactly did we go from dystopian fiction being cautionary to being a fait accompli?
Clearly, Orwell intended his work as a cautionary tale. Emerging from the trauma of World War II, visions of totalitarian futures in fiction and film seemed to offer the viewer the chance to redeem the past by deciding how not to make the future. But somewhere, we lost our way.
Logan's Run seemed to me, as a child, as cautionary, but was it really just preparing me? Soylent Green?
Blake's 7?
The manifesting of dystopian visions in our present reality represent a failure of imagination on the part of the masses, who have abdicated responsibility for what the future looks like to writers and directors and,
ultimately, to the Hollywood box office.
By Blade Runner, it is obvious that the individual, as reified by either Hauer's or Ford's character, is exhausted in its struggle against the faceless state. The die is cast.
Now, the trope of "the future" includes militarized cops and ubiquitous surveillance by default. Endless war and increased alienation from nature.
This is a spell we have cast on ourselves, or at the very least have allowed. We must claim sovereignty over our visions and exert our own imaginative effort if we would have the future be another way.
Choice exists.
We can yet take 1984 as a warning, not as an eventuality.
The rest of this noise is bullshit.
In my divergence from Toxic's original theme, my main issue was that toxic should not have brought a gun into scene 1 unless he had meant for it to be used at some point.
Maybe better stated by Chekhov:
"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889.
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