life$tyle on Nostr: I hear ya; fiat brain is a fuckin' doozy. "It's easier to imagine the end of the ...
I hear ya; fiat brain is a fuckin' doozy.
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism"
I think that's why Bitcoin offers some unique opportunities: rather than coming up with a theoretical replacement for capitalism that is doomed to fail, we understand the role of separating the State from money in expanding our capacity to imagine how capitalism could work. The conclusion of Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" proposes that the fix for inequality is technology and education, which from a cynical perspective is exactly the kind of trite bullshit that a pro-establishment academic would say, however from the perspective of the Bitcoiner it's a fundamental truth, in my opinion.
The key to harnessing the transformative power of technology and education is freedom, which is where things get really messy because this is where we start hitting the limitations of our imaginations. Theoretically unlimited in capacity, in practice our imaginations are limited by politics which is simply the timeless conflict between freedom and security. You can't have one without the other, but too much of either means the loss of both. It's a fundamental gap in reality that drives humanity forward. But that's the key: forward, we need to imagine the future, and we need to be free of the past to do that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't study history, far from it, but looking back towards the past for inspiration from political systems where technology and education were dominated by state coercion is the purest form of a fiat-brain mind trap.
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism"
I think that's why Bitcoin offers some unique opportunities: rather than coming up with a theoretical replacement for capitalism that is doomed to fail, we understand the role of separating the State from money in expanding our capacity to imagine how capitalism could work. The conclusion of Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" proposes that the fix for inequality is technology and education, which from a cynical perspective is exactly the kind of trite bullshit that a pro-establishment academic would say, however from the perspective of the Bitcoiner it's a fundamental truth, in my opinion.
The key to harnessing the transformative power of technology and education is freedom, which is where things get really messy because this is where we start hitting the limitations of our imaginations. Theoretically unlimited in capacity, in practice our imaginations are limited by politics which is simply the timeless conflict between freedom and security. You can't have one without the other, but too much of either means the loss of both. It's a fundamental gap in reality that drives humanity forward. But that's the key: forward, we need to imagine the future, and we need to be free of the past to do that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't study history, far from it, but looking back towards the past for inspiration from political systems where technology and education were dominated by state coercion is the purest form of a fiat-brain mind trap.