Here's a question I have that I'd be interested in bitcoiner perspectives on. It will take a bit of wind-up to motivate.
The virtues of economic calculation were best expressed (imo) by Hayek in Use of Knowledge in Society, and amount to: free exchange is a distributed information processing system whose interactions are governed by prices, which in turn are expressed in money. Screw around with any of these elements (e.g., debase the money; manipulate prices; coerce transaction) and you will pervert the "computation" of value of that system. The world will subtly skew away from the "true" value imputed by the individual distributed elements (freely transacting people) towards what is mandated by fiat, either fiat currency, or fiat as coercion of human action.
One thing that has always seemed a shortfall in this formulation is society itself -- the collective, the emergent structures of interacting components. That there is a collective agency that emerges from atomic interaction is well understood in other fields -- birds flock, fish school, ants build anthills that act according to their aggregate logic. Even we, as interacting individuals, are composites of simpler atomic units -- the well being of the white blood cell is disjoint from the well being of the organism that it helps constitute.
That externalities accrue to the group as a result of individual action is also well-understood. Basically, someone has to look out for the "we" because the individual "I" has no incentive to do it. If I walk outside, it's likely some shithead has thrown his garbage in the street. Why not? What's it to him to fuck up a part of the world that he's just passing through?
So the question: it's widely accepted by non-bitcoiners that there is a "we" we should care about, that society is a thing that we should value, that it requires certain compromises from the individuals that live in it, and that in general this is worth sacrificing for even though we don't like it all the time, including for things like taxes and laws and such. Some of you may have traveled to places where this sense of society has fractured, and these are all, with no exception in my experience, terrible shitholes.
I'm trying to not fixate on the more idiotic and extreme opinions on this topic. So I'd like to know, honestly, what you as bitcoiners think about your place / integration within the larger society. Do you really want to burn it all down? Do you really think there's no role for government in the future you want? Do you really think taxation is theft, and prefer a world without it? Do you really think that all fiat is bad?