History does not repeat, but it often rhymes. Five centuries apart, two figures: one a German monk with a mallet, the other an anonymous coder with a keyboard. Both launched ideological strikes against the most powerful institutions of their eras.
Martin Luther did not just change how people prayed; he broke the monopoly the Roman Catholic Church held over worship, accessing the Bible, and even the human soul. Satoshi Nakamoto did not just invent digital commodity money; he is breaking the monopoly the State and Central Banks hold over human labor. By examining the Protestant Reformation and the Bitcoin Revolution, we see a recurring blueprint for human liberation: the use of disruptive technology to bypass intermediaries and return sovereignty to the individual.
- Part I: The Monopolies of the Mediaries
- Part II: The 95 Theses vs. The Bitcoin White Paper
- Part III: Marketing the Revolution—The Printing Press and the Internet
- Part IV: Escaping the Medieval Era of Finance
- Part V: The Prosperity of the Individual
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You could probably fit TV and the collapse of the Soviet Union into this model.
I don't get how!
I remember reading about how a lot of televised Soviet propaganda backfired, because it let people see how much better life was in America, even though the regime was trying to show the opposite.
It's not quite the same thesis. Perhaps the better match is the idea that the fax machine served as an effective way to disseminate information throughout the USSR.