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Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, is said to have envisioned a society in which all people lived according to reason, without law courts, temples, or currencies divided by city-states, in his now-lost book Republic.
That bit of information just blew my mind. If that's not an utterly anarcho-capitalist Bitcoin idea, then I don't know what is. And he wrote it 2000+ years ago!
BTW I'm close to finishing my essay on the convergence of Bitcoin and Stoicism. If there's anyone out there who has been genuinely looking forward to that piece, I apologize for the wait from the bottom of my heart. I have been letting you down - as well as myself - and I am painfully aware of that. I have two very good reasons for the delay though:
The parallels run much deeper than I thought (I had no idea Zeno was basically an anarchist) and the essay, instead of being 2000-3000 words like I originally thought, is looking more like 7000+ words.
I have simply been not at my best. Unmotivated, tired, undisciplined. Completely my own shortcomings.
All that being said, I go to war against myself every day. I put pen to paper every day, even when nothing noteworthy comes out of it (or sometimes it feels like it's too much to even put out there). But, as I said, the essay is very close to being finished.
If you want a preliminary idea into what it will be about, you can listen to this episode of the Bitcoin Art Magazine Podcast with @asanoha from December, where among other things discussed, I read most of the draft I had written at the time:
Check it out:
Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, is said to have envisioned a society in which all people lived according to reason, without law courts, temples, or currencies divided by city-states, in his now-lost book Republic.
That bit of information just blew my mind. If that's not an utterly anarcho-capitalist Bitcoin idea, then I don't know what is. And he wrote it 2000+ years ago!
BTW I'm close to finishing my essay on the convergence of Bitcoin and Stoicism. If there's anyone out there who has been genuinely looking forward to that piece, I apologize for the wait from the bottom of my heart. I have been letting you down - as well as myself - and I am painfully aware of that. I have two very good reasons for the delay though:
All that being said, I go to war against myself every day. I put pen to paper every day, even when nothing noteworthy comes out of it (or sometimes it feels like it's too much to even put out there). But, as I said, the essay is very close to being finished.
If you want a preliminary idea into what it will be about, you can listen to this episode of the Bitcoin Art Magazine Podcast with @asanoha from December, where among other things discussed, I read most of the draft I had written at the time:
https://fountain.fm/episode/vyU08CzNJ4lSsA2wMEas