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@ Narwhal Tacos
2025-05-05 05:39:18
DISCLAIMER: I wrote the following years ago in a newb-inspired heady fervor of Bitcoin. Came across it tonight and was going to delete it, but because we are Nostr, here it is, warts and all:
“Bitcoiners often talk about Self Sovereignty, but we rarely acknowledge what that means at its core.
Traditionally, only someone with enough wealth to be independent from the NEED for income - only that person could be said to be Self Sovereign. (Let’s eschew the voluntary “drop-outs” of general society for the sake of argument here). Self-Sovereignty has, throughout recorded history, been a state of living - and a resulting mind-frame - for people who’ve achieved financial independence beyond the need for a “job” or income.
But far, far more important to focus on here is how that person is independent of the myriad influences of what I’ll simply call the Working Man’s Marketplace. The Working Man’s Marketplace is the life-long propaganda working people swim in whereby they are told their worth lies only in producing income, having a job, and affording better and better things.
Yes, you know….so where am I going with this…
To be Self Sovereign is to become free of this ubiquitous culture that underpins servitude. You get this, this is important, and there’s a lot that could be said about it, but my point here is this:
Bitcoiners represent a tiny fulcrum of History where a sizable mass of “plebian” Humanity has achieved THE MINDSET of Self-Sovereignty, regardless of whether they possess the MEANS of it.
The American Revolution is most certainly the last point in history that contemporary Bitcoin culture could be compared to…and I’m hard-pressed to think of any other one beyond that.
Bitcoin is the New America.
But more important, WE are the Revolutionary forces which will shape the World in its light.
We know now that very, very few Continental Americans wanted a Revolution against the oppressive authority…yet those very few were confident and intransigent. They didn’t suffer fools gladly.”