CantillonEffet on Nostr: It is of great irony that society deemed it sufficient to dispatch the notion of God ...
It is of great irony that society deemed it sufficient to dispatch the notion of God to overcome the "divine right of kings". Not only have they killed God but they are dead themselves in that way. Those can still be reigned over in the same absolutistic way by the doctrinical Leviathan supported by fiat and the abuse of top-down enforced reason.
Enlightenment should not end with the empiricism of science, as it doesn't solve individual values, much less moral judgements, even when tried and abused "in the name of science". It "can tell us what is, but not what ought to be" - facts, but no determination of the self.
This is why we Bitcoin: It brings with it the Apollonian aspect of truth through order, rationality and logic on a fixed set of rules but also the Dionysian aspects of growth and self-realization, a self-determined collective experience, emotional authenticity, freedom, spontaneity and creative expression. All of it without the corruption of a central absolute power.
Enlightenment should not end with the empiricism of science, as it doesn't solve individual values, much less moral judgements, even when tried and abused "in the name of science". It "can tell us what is, but not what ought to be" - facts, but no determination of the self.
This is why we Bitcoin: It brings with it the Apollonian aspect of truth through order, rationality and logic on a fixed set of rules but also the Dionysian aspects of growth and self-realization, a self-determined collective experience, emotional authenticity, freedom, spontaneity and creative expression. All of it without the corruption of a central absolute power.