stacksatsio on Nostr: I have come to understand that the fourth quadrant which I incorrectly said was ...
I have come to understand that the fourth quadrant which I incorrectly said was missing is in fact, not missing at all.
Thiel and the Techbro oligarchy are pursuing it already, they’ve simply decided to do it quietly. They are going to use #Bitcoin as their vehicle to the fourth way, the gold quadrant, in which they will set themselves as the oligarchs in charge of the post-Dollar system - a new bankster class not dissimilar to what we have today but with new ruling elites but sold as maximal freedom.
Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin are kind of right, but more in a gut intuition way than understanding the power dynamics at play.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but Bitcoiners must understand the game afoot else you’ll wake up to a binary decision later of in or out.
https://youtu.be/i-8ndBR92Gg
Thiel and the Techbro oligarchy are pursuing it already, they’ve simply decided to do it quietly. They are going to use #Bitcoin as their vehicle to the fourth way, the gold quadrant, in which they will set themselves as the oligarchs in charge of the post-Dollar system - a new bankster class not dissimilar to what we have today but with new ruling elites but sold as maximal freedom.
Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin are kind of right, but more in a gut intuition way than understanding the power dynamics at play.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but Bitcoiners must understand the game afoot else you’ll wake up to a binary decision later of in or out.
https://youtu.be/i-8ndBR92Gg
quoting note1yme…39mrPeter Thiel lays out the three paths for the future that he sees.
1) Sharia Law
2) Totalitarian AI
3) Hyper environmentalism
This is incomplete.
Think of a simple political compass. 1 is effectively Blue. That could be Sharia Law or a reversion to extreme Nationalism with any religion at the core.
2 is clearly Red. He references China and realistically this is the path Western uniparty systems are seeking to traverse.
3 is Green. It fits near perfectly with environmentalist movement where everything is a contradiction, they want freedom to be gay communists and to destroy capitalism and that is the tension to the Overton window of 2.
Where is the Yellow panel? Where is 4?
This vision is erroneously missing from Thiel’s calculus.
Not because it doesn’t exist, rather, it hasn’t got nearly the traction of the first 3. It’s not in his field of vision for that reason.
The 4th path is Hyperbitcoinisation. It’s 100,000 Lichtensteins where we fuck off these monolithic nation states and revert to more localised systems with strong property rights and minimal interventionism.
It’s Bitcoiners going from a scattering of individuals into an organised vision which not only negates 1-3, but can pull others into their orbit by offering normies a positive identity to adopt.
Bitcoin has the economics down, what it lacks is the social and political to truly scale. It cannot be plugged into fiat systems or these 3 visions - except Sharia, it could feasibly work there or at least provide the Overton window tension - it needs its own vision and future.