I love censorship.
I love inflationary monetary policy.
I love when banks prevent people from using their money.
I hate the effects of them, but I love the fact that a certain vaccine has brought so much awareness to the corruption and interconnectedness between corporations and government.
I love the rate at which clown world is accelerating, opening the eyes of more and more people as it happens.
Many years ago, I was asleep, yelling at one side of political spectrum to do something about the other side. Hatred fueled my body for men and women on the other side. How could they feel this way? Can't they see what's happening? These people are so stupid.
I finally realized: I hated feeling that way about my fellow brothers and sisters. I wanted to understand why they believed the things they did. Slowly, education and understanding changed my views. I now had understanding for why the other side believed what they did and empathy for what used to be "my" side (of course, since Bitcoin, I have no "side") and why they were still asleep. Some people can do it on their own, but many more need to experience the negatives before they see.
That is why I am thankful for censorship and all of the other asinine policies that are accelerating over the past few years. It's easy to make fun of the ones that currently don't see and question why they don't, but the indoctrination is strong. It's incredibly difficult to change views that are so ingrained. It can feel like an identity crisis. Even through "waking up" on my own, it was still painful realizing that so many things I felt so strongly about now seemed incorrect, possibly even detrimental to myself and society.
We must keep in mind that many people don't have the want to understand "the other side" on their own. Sometimes it may take experience. Sometimes it may take befriending someone who doesn't shove their beliefs down your throat, but asks the right questions to try to lead the horse to water.
Through the thick and the thin of all of these bad policies, if things go very wrong (as I imagine they could) - your local currency collapses, war, famine, homelessness, suicide - there will be other human beings that need support from people like you and like me. Whether that's to rebuild or just to talk and empathize with them as things potentially get worse.
There may soon be many people who experience a worldview shift that they have no control over. Be good to each other. Work together. Let's make the remake the world into a better place for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Sometimes I remind myself that I didn't always know this stuff, so I should have a bit more grace for those who haven't gotten it yet.
The regime wants us divided and hating each other. We don't have to give that to them.
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Yes! I do the same thing. I used to rant about stuff to my wife and she would remind me of the changes in my thinking over the years. I've gotten much better about showing grace to those that do not yet see the world as I do.
The way we lose is thinking our fellow man is the enemy. We have a much greater enemy using sociopaths to manipulate the masses against each other. Reject this. Your neighbor is not your enemy, but we are all being pushed to think that way. Reject the framing. Find common ground. Look for solutions. Bitcoin is one of these.
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49 sats \ 1 reply \ @kytt OP 14 Mar
The regime wants us divided and hating reach other. We don't have to give that to them.
I feel like we should all put more focus and effort into this. It seems to me one of the biggest obstacles holding us back as a society.
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It's part of why I'm so big on building off-ramps from the regime's systems.
It's also why I define "our side" so broadly.
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 14 Mar
I go back and forth between accelerationism and wanting to fight back against clown world, but I'm leaning more and more towards accelerationism.
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The main idea is that we don't know how to deal with current worldview. There's definitely a shift from how it went all these years from early 2000s. Now we are on the verge of deciding to what financial narrative we should accept for our lives.
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I don't really want to understand why people do stupid things in general. I would rather they just stop doing them.
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