Why does BTC cause so much controversy even with friends and family? The idea is amazing as is the technology. Why is there such a instant rejection of the idea?
The same reason people instantly reject the idea of anarchism. In a word,
indoctrination.
"The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. We are like those African slaves who believe that their master is their benefactor, or those Russians who still believe that Stalin was their guardian. "
-Joseph Sobran
"...Everything had to have its own nature and limitations, including the state; the idea of a state continually growing, knowing no boundaries, forever increasing its claims on the citizen, offended and frightened me. It could only end in tyranny."
-Joseph Sobran
"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare — never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship."
-Eric Fromm,
The Sane Society![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fuafs.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FCOB%2Fimages%2Fface%2520the%2520world.jpg&t=665&c=-YMmtO2xTyj1Uw)