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2024-07-18 14:25:42

Bayman11771 on Nostr: After a long string of Bitcoin books, I’m rereading Modris Ekstein’s “Rites of ...

After a long string of Bitcoin books, I’m rereading Modris Ekstein’s “Rites of Spring.” The book looks at the cultural environment that preceded WWI and the destruction of European civilization that followed. While our current civilization lacks the cultural elevation of the time, some of the threads still ring true - youth frustration, cultural norms being challenged, an elite unable to perceive the depths of institutional decadence.

Any honest observer sees the institutional decadence on full display. Regardless of your politics, the metaphor of Biden, personification of those institutions, declining before our eyes despite institutional insistence to the contrary, is glaring. Everything that has been directed at Trump, culminating in the events of July 13th, all spasms of resistance to that decline.

The sensation of a generational rotation is palpable. I give credit to a lot of people on this platform for building the tools that will help make this rotation a renewal. History books are replete with stories of the birth of technologies that changed the world for the better. I look forward to watching my own grandchildren read stories about the technologies being built here today, asking rhetorically, as we all do about previous generations, how anyone could have ever lived without them.
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