Reading this post made me realize that Western civilization, in its desperate attempt to perpetuate its credit driven authoritarian decadence, hastened its own demise. By creating hardship for its declared enemies, it made them stronger, independent and virtuous.
Societies are naturally anti-fragile. It is the mistake of many despots to harden their enemies over time. Machiavelli spoke about this and described the need to either grant your enemies immunity and forgiveness or annihilate them to a man. You can't half-ass it... fortunately the nature of our enemies and their laziness has led them to create their own boogeyman.
I wish I could agree and I wish it was this simple. I just started a post to illustrate the problem. What do you do when 'the enemy' is your own sister? Your friends, your relatives, you entire social milieu? With their naturally 'anti-fragile' attitudes. I am struggling with this problem for some time…..
As for your first point, just consider this:
People in big cities are far more likely to vote left than people who live closer to nature. If we are forcing people into living in big cities, with time their attitude will change. It is no accident that the left is so aggressive on urbanization and the destruction of civil society.
You are absolutely right saying that “Societies are naturally anti-fragile”, but those societies can be destroyed.
Where do you think the eight million imported voters ended up? I doubt that there are many North Dakota.
Urban areas need to be quarantined from rural areas. There's no reasonable way that we can share a country with people who hate us and want us dead. A degree of legal separation is clearly needed. You're already starting to see it as different states flaunt different aspects of federal law.
I think the future _does_ need to be carefully considered. I also think hysterical sword waving by armchair oracles who've never laced up a pair of well-worn combat boots is not the correct basis for victory. Those of us who believe in the cause will go into real combat and bleed real blood. All you parasites who think you just have to wait out the flying shrapnel in your basement and then march to your throne can go fuck yourselves.
I have been thinking about the “after” much lately as well, “what will happen once we win” is an important question to ask so long one doesn’t lose sight of the here and now for Quixotism and idealism, with that in mind I wager that unless those morons who occupy government chambers in the western world right now do something very stupid(in the USA that would be Trump and in Europe it would be an active armed persecution of any remotely right winged parties a phenomenon that seems to be slowly coming to pass…) the likelihood is that it won’t even be a violent conflict or “civil war” to begin with, although maybe that’s being optimistic, however still an important thing to note is that the right should avoid violent upheavals, specially too early, there won’t be red flags and marches and weapons based take overs and occupations, if we have smooth sailing: that’s how LEFTOIDS do Revolution, if we are to do it without open conflict it will be by the spreading of the “MannerBund” and parallel societies: think about how organizations like the Italian mob formed and organized itself, if we play our cards right and have a bit of luck and divine providence on our side we should be able to slowly grind away at the foundations of not only the current economic and cultural insanity but at the very zeitgeist foundational beliefs that allow for these blunders to begin with.
it will be by these “informal” associations of men that we can start to organize networks which will facilitate parallel society formations: farmers cooperatives who together pull more resources and give discounts to payments made in “alternative currency”(because you can be sure they’ll try to make Bitcoin illegal, they won’t be able to but they’ll try), another example of this when it comes to economics would be a rebirth of guild systems and corporate associations for small businesses would do much to help against the current system dominated by large companies backing DEI policies with their eternal money printer, to this end Distribuitist, Corporationist and even (in so far as it can be used for the benefit and purposes of rebuilding and going against the current regime) national syndicalist ideas could be applied.
On the more “hard power” level of things the organization of “hunting and sporting clubs”, “exercise and fighting sport amateur leagues and gymnasiums”, religious adjacent organizations, etcetera, etcetera; could hence provide the locations needed for these circles to further develop.
I have an entire section in the book dedicated to the discussion of mannerbunds, cooperatives and associations like this. It's absolutely critical, and we're seeing early signs of this all over the world actually. Check out the Beef Initiative that started out as Ranchers going direct to consumers about 3yrs ago from Texas. They are now in 4 or 5 countries, do the large majority of their business direct in Bitcoin - and are establishing a parallel food distribution system independent of the state.
There are also entire Bitcoin-denominated circular economies sprouting up all over the world. They're very small right now but the first one that actually hit critical mass (Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte) is the one that inspired Bukele's move in Salvador. These are growing in mass all over the world.
Add to that the rise of new tech like Fedi, which is literally "community banking" on Bitcoin, where hundreds of people establish an e-cash based cooperative to collaboratively manage custody and build completely private and anonymous micro-economies within communities - we start to see an powerful economic tapestry forming..
And then..I would add Nostr over the top of it. Public/Private key pair identity, on a social-graph topography. Allows us to create a communications layer atop the Internet that nobody can control or censor. It's NOT a bullshit blockchain, but instead a protocol that enables social networks to grow without the coordination of a central party. This is where new forms ox X, Substack, Patreon and the like will grow, along with markets (for anything), driven by a social graph and connections.
I spoke a little about this in another essay a couple months back here (but from a more commercial angle):
I have a distinct preference for an international "awakening" but I am not sanguine about that outcome.
I see a path to "The Handmaid's Tale" with Jeffrey Epstein's Fantasy Island as an early exemplar.
Leadership- there's the crunch.
Is there any analogue to the WEF's Young Global Leaders in which ethical competent leadership is being developed? Severe concern with Ivanka Trump's attachment to the YGL's a couple of years ago. JD Vance came from Yale, centre of the "Bones" and the Bush alma mater.
While not understanding Bitcoin at all (though interested) I do understand certain ideas, sociological ones. In that Bitcoin seems to me to be an electronic version of what used to be, essentially trade and barter. At least I think so. I suspect though, that there are problems in being electronic - hard drives crashing for one. In my limited understanding, I would pin Bitcoin to physical currency (I could be completely wrong about this) as well as maybe a gold standard.
If this isn't a stupid question... ...how would you see Bitcoin rising to the level of a global currency for everyday transactions if there's an absolute limit of 21 million BTC that can ever be mined? That's gonna get stretched pretty thin if mass adoption ever took place.
That's not an problem at all, so long as the money is divisible.
In fact that's the key. You want a fixed supply and continual divisibility (which you get with a. digital money, ie; 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 Sats right now, and in 100 years if we need to subdivide further you can go to mini sats, micro sats, nano sats, etc - which would enough to take care of 100bn people no problem)
The current monetary system is inverted. Infinite supply, with a fixed base unit (ie; 1c is the smallest you can go). In that scenario, as the monetary supply inflates, the small denominations become worthless, and people who have savings are destroyed.
And without savings you don't have civilisation. You literally cannot.
So...In the same was as "energy" is like a fixed constant, money should be too.
The only variable then becomes the money's purchasing power - which simply reflects the productivity of the society (purchasing power increases if we collectively get more effective/efficient, and it decreases if we are lazy & produce nothing).
You noted virtue and morality but not ethics. Your Bitcoin Bushido leans, in my opinion, toward Aristotle's virtue ethics, based on virtue and character.
Bitcoins fine but for a hairy legged country boy like me sounds just as much a ponzi as the present 'why does the dollar have value, ? 'cause we say so!' dollar. The dollar has no need for gold backing, it's backed by the GNP, our productive might, a real thing! Bitcoins backed by the energy it takes to make it, a real thing! OK, you might be right but a "This bitcoin is exchangeable for X itty X of gold or Y itty Y of silver" tag like we used to have on our, I'm so old I can remember, gold backed dollar; printed in big letters on each bill, "Ten dollars in gold coin payable to the bearer on demand", would keep yokels, unlearned in the building of bits coined such as me believers. This is backed by gold, here is some in exchange for it, is far more saleable than this is backed by energy, take my word for it.
The right is winning the wrong is losing? Hope your right , none the less my savage teenage granddaughter is well home schooled in practical ballistics. We have digital and paper how to's such as Audel s Manuals (Early 1900s). Practical Carpentry (1963) and Department of the Army's FM 5-31 on the shelves containing more than enough information to build and defend at least an early 20th century civilization out of 21th century rubble. Hopefully enough others are like thinkers.
Yep, no matter how it goes, better to be a warrior in a garden...
Good insight - I'd say The Bushido concept very much aligns with the Aristotelean idea of virtue ethics. "It's what you do that matters"
On the note about bitcoin - yes - on the surface it's hard to differentiate. But a little digging goes a long way here. I can recommend "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden and of course "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous as two great resources to help down this rabbit hole.
In fact, if you have a moment, this essay is also fantastic:
Finally...happy to hear your granddaughter has been educated the right way. The more of us that have this kind of knowledge (ballistics, building, etc), the better.
"... bitcoin - yes - on the surface it's hard to differentiate. But a little digging goes a long way here. "
OK Mr. Phineas Taylor Barnum (grin), I'll look into it but most won't.
Seriously it's a hard sell, the value of a wallet full of zeros and ones to the general public.
It's be a far easier sale to Joe the janitor as well as the movers and shakers such as yourself and J. Carter of Bars'm if say, one Satoshi, by simple agreed definition, is today, and always will be exchangeable for a troy ounce of gold, I think.
Old Joe and even his fiscally prudent wife Millie would be quite comfortable with his bitcoin wallet knowing he can always exchange a Satoshi for a thousand New Hampshire goldbacks.
& just in case it's not clear, the P. T. Barnum is a bit of joshing, I'm quite impressed with both your package and your presentation!
Off on a tangent; a problem with bitcoin and this, our communications through the internet. is bottlenecks, etc. subject to control, limitation and elimination by Those That Be, whoever they may be.
LoRa and Meshtastic (Long range, very low power radio link packet exchange.) and peer to and through peer nets seem the best way to completely avoid that, but such is not quite ready for prime time yet. I say such having spent some six hours trying to flash firmware into a Heltec LoRa 32, a quick and simple process in say NYC or Blue Ball , PA but not so easy from here in North Pole, Alaska with my wood fired router and tin can and string internet connection to the lower forty eight.
He is avoiding the gold standard, methinks. I wrote above that currently, organisations must possess liquid assets equal to what they are financially trading. That's one. Next, is what Trump proposed and will do - abolish the IRS and Federal Reserve, also carbon tax, apply a flat tax, probably 14-15%, maybe tariifs on imported goods, bring industry back home, pin the dollar to the gold standard (Nixon converted the gold standard to oil based fiat currency) and you do not need Bitcoin at all. Issue physical currency with this rule: the amount of printable money must match how much gold and precious metals, and no more. Even better if one issues just gold and silver coinage. That will take care of most problems, eliminate the need for cryptocurrency (at least until we rebuild and can handle it) and we're good. The rest is technological decentrailisation.
Bitcoin, backed by gold, is in my opinion a good medium of exchange through the aether. Better than credit cards, as credit card companies (and Banks) can and do withhold payments on purchases you make of which they don't approve. Tap your bitcoin wallet containing phone here on the pad, exchange you secret 23ed degree Mason's handshake, grab the keys and drive off in your shiney new car, the exchange was as good as gold because it is gold.
BTW; Trump, flat rate tax, etc. That's what Putin did and probably why media and the government (Repeating myself there.) tell us 24/7 Putin's so evil!
Yup. I may have argued otherwise, but am thinking about it. BRICS announced the building of an alternate trading system, one to be robust. SGAnon mentions an actual study being done in the US to devise a blockchain system that can fend off any hack, is stable, robust, and most interestingly, eliminates the need for third party (central bank) oversight. Indicating probably a combo of personal digital wallets and localised, national and probably smaller banks, eventually eliminating banks altogether. A contractor might be responsible for their own money. Add in no other tax than a flat tax, no IRS, and you have a rather independent and hard to manipulate system.
Specifically, Russia demanded rubles or gold for oil. Bitcoin has a specific amount attached to it which limits it’s use as a currency. However, a quantum blockchain protected currency in physical currency and digital, backed by gold and precious metals with one limit imposed, that limit being only as much gold as a country has can be printed would mitigate fraud.
SGAnon in one of his audio files on Rumble uncovered some information that seems both provable, legit and relevant that also proposes peer to peer trading, that is, one has a digital wallet and there are no third parties to monitor, exchange or control currency. Such a system would need to be robust. So if one is dealing with a contractor, say, one deals directly with a contractor, no banks involved. This is a digital version of the system used in Rome. The house had a chest in which the houses money was kept.
Fortunately, we have guiding principles. We have Judeo-Christian teachings which show us the way. Also, our own founding fathers were well-educated and had studied the ancient literature and philosophy. I hope that we can focus on educating the young so that they truly are able to ponder-well and come to some accurate conclusions about life. Over the past few years, as many of us woke up - we started to see for ourselves (as we learned to trust our own eyes), and to think for ourselves. There is a great deal of good in human beings. After all, we are all children of God. The sky is the limit. We will learn how important the family unit is and how each person in that unit plays an important part in the functioning of the family and therefore, of society. We will teach our children - modesty, industry, honesty and resilience. We will not look to the people who are functioning at a lower, baser level to guide us but rather the best of the best of us. President Donald Trump represents the best of men - real men - with a dangerous quality that he keeps in check. As a woman - I recognize that we need men like that - to keep danger at bay. Women will once again be what we do best - not protecting men who are bigger, taller and more dangerous than us - but being the nurturers, using our gentleness and intuitive ability to respond and protect to take care of the emotional needs of our family. There is a natural order to things. We will know it when we see it. Men are natural builders. Women can make those buildings homes. I have great hope for the future. We have inherited from our forefathers - a wonderful system of government and we can finally see it work. The tide is turning - you can feel it. We are the ones who need to support the others who have remained asleep. We have had years to come to a greater understanding of what is really going on. One step at a time. We have already won. We know it - it is just taking some time for the majority of the human race to accept that fact.
Honored. Thank you Aleksander. I should clarify, the tactic of canceling someone does not make one a loser, dependence on it does. Like dropping a few central bankers in the Marianas Trench for a deposit on a better future, we don't need a mass canceling campaign of terror to send the message of the arrival of a new era. Normies have to be inspired, not cowering in fear.
The end of centralized, fiat, fractional reserve currency seems imminent. They cannot be allowed to move to a central, digital currency.
Excellent clarification. If all you can do is resort to cancellation (and nothing else), it says more about you than your opponent. Inspiration must lead.
And also yes. A CBDC is their wet-dream. And the last real tool they have. We're not going to stop them from rolling them out, but we Can establish parallel economies and networks that operate independently of these panopticons, and THAT is precisely where our effort needs to go. Ultimately, whether it's Bitcoin or Gold, money represents the wealth of a community/society/network. Bitcoin has the greatest carrying capacity IMO, and we just now need to use it as another tool in the toolbox.
I appreciate the forward-thinking nature of this article. I do think that to see the rise of the next civilization we will have to give up some of our fundamental assumptions about the way things work. I'm working on an article describing that necessary rejection and hope to have it published relatively soon. The way things have functioned classically have utilized a reductionist mode of being that presumes the whole can be understood by deconstructing its parts. Unfortunately that does a poor job comprehending complex emergent systems.
A golden bullet like Bitcoin, while I respect it, will not be sufficient to build a new civilization... a holistic understanding of human societies will be needed. We aren't at that stage of development yet, but recognizing the problem should be appreciated. Bitcoin as a (the) decentralized monetary network will be critical to further development. A degree of righteous indignation will be critical to maintaining the initiative in the culture war. We have the initiative and the Left is attempting to re-seize it with a, frankly, abysmal propaganda campaign. They shot at the king and they missed. You can't undo that no matter how much you try to bury it in the media and google algorithms.
One thing we need to focus on is an open-minded optimism. We're not merely rebelling against the modern progressive left, we're forging something new. If we're successful, then we can create a post-industrial era where people really do have a shot at achieving on an equal playing field. If we fail we're likely to see a form of totalitarian Stalinism imposed on the populace by money-printers and AI. You're absolutely correct that this is a fight for the soul of Humanity. We can't afford to lose.
Really appreciate this comment - and I couldn't agree more. While sound money & an incorruptible monetary substrate (IMO: Bitcoin being the only viable option) is an important piece of the puzzle - it's certainly not enough.
In fact - your comment here nailed the EXACT reason why I spent two years writing my new book. It's specifically a discussion about all the other stuff, taking the Bitcoin piece as a "given."
I'll be sharing more. But seriously - I appreciate this comment. You get it.
Looking forward to the book. Would be happy to chat on a podcast sometime if you run one. There's a LOT going on right now in terms of cultural development.
I'm with you 100% and over the next few months; the DR needs to be as white-pilled as possible. Reasons:
- Trump is going to win.
- JDV is the absolute best VP choice we could realistically have hoped for...FFS it could seriously have been Marco Rubio! (And, of course, it establishes a proper line of succession as any Caesar should ensure.)
- The PayPal Mafia thing is huge. Yes, these people are not all seriously ideologically aligned with us but they want order and competence and, given the shit show the West has become, at the moment I'll take that in a heartbeat.
- Project 2025 may not fully come to fruition but at least there is a serious movement, with power, acknowledging the mistakes that were made with the 2017-2021 appointments and establishing a framework for his 2nd term.
C'mon guys, we've got these fuckers on the run, we can start to see genuine fear in their eyes (they're beginning to think that the right might actually be serious about taking revenge) and now is not the time for faint hearts...STRENGTH AND HONOUR!
One of the biggest differences between the classical republic and the modern republic was that the former was a warrior community while the modern was a commercial republic. Different values and virtues will determine the kind of men.
Paul A. Rahe did a very thorough job describing this in his outstanding
Republics Ancient & Modern, Vol. 1: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece.
Regarding debt, our biggest problem is not the Fed or the Bank of England, but Eurodollar which seems to a novice like me to be a completely decentralized currency created by the commercial banks to help USSR get around the sanctions after Hungarian Rebellion. No one seems to know just how much is out there. But the fundamental is still the same, debt is money and money is debt. Cancel the debt and the money supply is reduced, a point made to the Congress in 70s. But commodity’s also money, the first money. So that more assets we have in land, factories, water, oil, the more independent we become. To gain control of those assets required syndication, a teamwork. So, a brotherhood, church, clan could become the organizational structure for this economic activity. Much like the Chinese Oversea or the Knight Templars.
Still, we hasn’t address the why the importance of capital to the economy in a way different from the past economies. Gunpowder is the main cause of Capital’s rise. It cost a lot of money to turn alchemy into chemistry and metallurgy into science rather than artisan craft. Then you need to figure out the math to make cannonballs hit where they’re supposed to hit. This requires a whole new organization that would become an abstract entity called the state and a new tax base. Every ambitious king in Western Europe since 1200s have been working toward this, using the bright middle class men against aristocratic class. The industrial revolution accelerated this process. What’s needed is to democratize the material science, returning power back to the lowest level possible.
This essay is similar to what I wrote in to-day's essay of mine, about the need to hold fast to a shining ideal and to work towards it in defiance of to-day's leftoid incompetent globalist leaders.
I wonder how much we can fix technologically. A move towards a monero (xmr) (don't worry, I hate the crypto bros as well) and a private (as in privacy) blockchain economy, with E2E P2P messaging technology, and privacy and freedom from the government at scale, in my view, is the most effective and antifragile way to do this.
The only way IMO to fix the privacy issue is at the transaction layers. You cannot do it at the settlement layer. Fedimints, e-cash, lightning, ark, liquid, coin-join and all of these side chains are anchored to bitcoin, who's entire point of existence is to guarantee a finite supply and ultimate transaction settlement (can be individual or batched).
The privacy piece comes above that, in the layers that people use on a day to day basis (like cash). And when you batch or aggregate onto the main chain, you solve for privacy there too.
In this way, you get the best of both worlds. Settlement guarantees (good article here on this: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurances-stupid-5dcd1c3f4e41) and then you can get maximum functional privacy through MANY methods (each with the pro's and cons). So that way it's even HARDER for the government monkeys to deal with it. An entire market for privacy is much better than a single method (XMR, or whatever).
If you want to work together, I'd love to do a full write up covering the whole space. From matrix.org decentralised chats to private and anonymous transactions.
Sure. Shoot me a DM and we can coordinate. There’s Loads happening and while I’m super busy now finishing the book, at the very least I can point you in the right direction and help you make sure all the key things are covered.
A couple of years ago I did a fairly extensive online course in Bitcoin from none other than Gary Gensler, current head of the SEC and lead warrior in the current illegitimate government's attempt to quash it, led by Alleged President Joe Stolen and his puppeteers. I've read several more books on Real Money and am convinced that Bitcoin will go a long way toward righting this ship. I have a physical wallet; now I have to figure out how to obtain some 'coin anonymously; otherwise some gub'ment - at some time - will want to do what they're trying to do now: tax you on Bitcoin's "appreciation" - read that, the dollar's collapse.
And yep - the key now is to do that. Honestly - the best way to is to earn it.
Trade a good or a service for some. There are marketplaces sprouting up all over the world.
The other option is to find a local meetup and establish some relationships there. Micro, private peer to peer marketplaces are also in existence all over (but by their nature are hard to find).
Reading this post made me realize that Western civilization, in its desperate attempt to perpetuate its credit driven authoritarian decadence, hastened its own demise. By creating hardship for its declared enemies, it made them stronger, independent and virtuous.
Societies are naturally anti-fragile. It is the mistake of many despots to harden their enemies over time. Machiavelli spoke about this and described the need to either grant your enemies immunity and forgiveness or annihilate them to a man. You can't half-ass it... fortunately the nature of our enemies and their laziness has led them to create their own boogeyman.
This is very well put.
I wish I could agree and I wish it was this simple. I just started a post to illustrate the problem. What do you do when 'the enemy' is your own sister? Your friends, your relatives, you entire social milieu? With their naturally 'anti-fragile' attitudes. I am struggling with this problem for some time…..
As for your first point, just consider this:
People in big cities are far more likely to vote left than people who live closer to nature. If we are forcing people into living in big cities, with time their attitude will change. It is no accident that the left is so aggressive on urbanization and the destruction of civil society.
You are absolutely right saying that “Societies are naturally anti-fragile”, but those societies can be destroyed.
Where do you think the eight million imported voters ended up? I doubt that there are many North Dakota.
Urban areas need to be quarantined from rural areas. There's no reasonable way that we can share a country with people who hate us and want us dead. A degree of legal separation is clearly needed. You're already starting to see it as different states flaunt different aspects of federal law.
I am not as pessimistic as I sometimes sound.
Check this post out:
https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-future-of-humanity
to see where I think the answers are: personal control and decentralized independence.
I think the future _does_ need to be carefully considered. I also think hysterical sword waving by armchair oracles who've never laced up a pair of well-worn combat boots is not the correct basis for victory. Those of us who believe in the cause will go into real combat and bleed real blood. All you parasites who think you just have to wait out the flying shrapnel in your basement and then march to your throne can go fuck yourselves.
I agree
I have been thinking about the “after” much lately as well, “what will happen once we win” is an important question to ask so long one doesn’t lose sight of the here and now for Quixotism and idealism, with that in mind I wager that unless those morons who occupy government chambers in the western world right now do something very stupid(in the USA that would be Trump and in Europe it would be an active armed persecution of any remotely right winged parties a phenomenon that seems to be slowly coming to pass…) the likelihood is that it won’t even be a violent conflict or “civil war” to begin with, although maybe that’s being optimistic, however still an important thing to note is that the right should avoid violent upheavals, specially too early, there won’t be red flags and marches and weapons based take overs and occupations, if we have smooth sailing: that’s how LEFTOIDS do Revolution, if we are to do it without open conflict it will be by the spreading of the “MannerBund” and parallel societies: think about how organizations like the Italian mob formed and organized itself, if we play our cards right and have a bit of luck and divine providence on our side we should be able to slowly grind away at the foundations of not only the current economic and cultural insanity but at the very zeitgeist foundational beliefs that allow for these blunders to begin with.
it will be by these “informal” associations of men that we can start to organize networks which will facilitate parallel society formations: farmers cooperatives who together pull more resources and give discounts to payments made in “alternative currency”(because you can be sure they’ll try to make Bitcoin illegal, they won’t be able to but they’ll try), another example of this when it comes to economics would be a rebirth of guild systems and corporate associations for small businesses would do much to help against the current system dominated by large companies backing DEI policies with their eternal money printer, to this end Distribuitist, Corporationist and even (in so far as it can be used for the benefit and purposes of rebuilding and going against the current regime) national syndicalist ideas could be applied.
On the more “hard power” level of things the organization of “hunting and sporting clubs”, “exercise and fighting sport amateur leagues and gymnasiums”, religious adjacent organizations, etcetera, etcetera; could hence provide the locations needed for these circles to further develop.
These are just my two cents tho.
Great comments.
I have an entire section in the book dedicated to the discussion of mannerbunds, cooperatives and associations like this. It's absolutely critical, and we're seeing early signs of this all over the world actually. Check out the Beef Initiative that started out as Ranchers going direct to consumers about 3yrs ago from Texas. They are now in 4 or 5 countries, do the large majority of their business direct in Bitcoin - and are establishing a parallel food distribution system independent of the state.
There are also entire Bitcoin-denominated circular economies sprouting up all over the world. They're very small right now but the first one that actually hit critical mass (Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte) is the one that inspired Bukele's move in Salvador. These are growing in mass all over the world.
Add to that the rise of new tech like Fedi, which is literally "community banking" on Bitcoin, where hundreds of people establish an e-cash based cooperative to collaboratively manage custody and build completely private and anonymous micro-economies within communities - we start to see an powerful economic tapestry forming..
And then..I would add Nostr over the top of it. Public/Private key pair identity, on a social-graph topography. Allows us to create a communications layer atop the Internet that nobody can control or censor. It's NOT a bullshit blockchain, but instead a protocol that enables social networks to grow without the coordination of a central party. This is where new forms ox X, Substack, Patreon and the like will grow, along with markets (for anything), driven by a social graph and connections.
I spoke a little about this in another essay a couple months back here (but from a more commercial angle):
https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/reviewing-reviews
Lots to be optimistic about. Now we just need to go out and lean into the momentum.
I don't see the "after" clearly.
I have a distinct preference for an international "awakening" but I am not sanguine about that outcome.
I see a path to "The Handmaid's Tale" with Jeffrey Epstein's Fantasy Island as an early exemplar.
Leadership- there's the crunch.
Is there any analogue to the WEF's Young Global Leaders in which ethical competent leadership is being developed? Severe concern with Ivanka Trump's attachment to the YGL's a couple of years ago. JD Vance came from Yale, centre of the "Bones" and the Bush alma mater.
While not understanding Bitcoin at all (though interested) I do understand certain ideas, sociological ones. In that Bitcoin seems to me to be an electronic version of what used to be, essentially trade and barter. At least I think so. I suspect though, that there are problems in being electronic - hard drives crashing for one. In my limited understanding, I would pin Bitcoin to physical currency (I could be completely wrong about this) as well as maybe a gold standard.
If this isn't a stupid question... ...how would you see Bitcoin rising to the level of a global currency for everyday transactions if there's an absolute limit of 21 million BTC that can ever be mined? That's gonna get stretched pretty thin if mass adoption ever took place.
That's not an problem at all, so long as the money is divisible.
In fact that's the key. You want a fixed supply and continual divisibility (which you get with a. digital money, ie; 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 Sats right now, and in 100 years if we need to subdivide further you can go to mini sats, micro sats, nano sats, etc - which would enough to take care of 100bn people no problem)
The current monetary system is inverted. Infinite supply, with a fixed base unit (ie; 1c is the smallest you can go). In that scenario, as the monetary supply inflates, the small denominations become worthless, and people who have savings are destroyed.
And without savings you don't have civilisation. You literally cannot.
So...In the same was as "energy" is like a fixed constant, money should be too.
The only variable then becomes the money's purchasing power - which simply reflects the productivity of the society (purchasing power increases if we collectively get more effective/efficient, and it decreases if we are lazy & produce nothing).
You noted virtue and morality but not ethics. Your Bitcoin Bushido leans, in my opinion, toward Aristotle's virtue ethics, based on virtue and character.
Bitcoins fine but for a hairy legged country boy like me sounds just as much a ponzi as the present 'why does the dollar have value, ? 'cause we say so!' dollar. The dollar has no need for gold backing, it's backed by the GNP, our productive might, a real thing! Bitcoins backed by the energy it takes to make it, a real thing! OK, you might be right but a "This bitcoin is exchangeable for X itty X of gold or Y itty Y of silver" tag like we used to have on our, I'm so old I can remember, gold backed dollar; printed in big letters on each bill, "Ten dollars in gold coin payable to the bearer on demand", would keep yokels, unlearned in the building of bits coined such as me believers. This is backed by gold, here is some in exchange for it, is far more saleable than this is backed by energy, take my word for it.
The right is winning the wrong is losing? Hope your right , none the less my savage teenage granddaughter is well home schooled in practical ballistics. We have digital and paper how to's such as Audel s Manuals (Early 1900s). Practical Carpentry (1963) and Department of the Army's FM 5-31 on the shelves containing more than enough information to build and defend at least an early 20th century civilization out of 21th century rubble. Hopefully enough others are like thinkers.
Yep, no matter how it goes, better to be a warrior in a garden...
Good insight - I'd say The Bushido concept very much aligns with the Aristotelean idea of virtue ethics. "It's what you do that matters"
On the note about bitcoin - yes - on the surface it's hard to differentiate. But a little digging goes a long way here. I can recommend "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden and of course "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous as two great resources to help down this rabbit hole.
In fact, if you have a moment, this essay is also fantastic:
https://bitcointimes.io/toward-a-node-world-order/
And this one:
https://svetski.medium.com/why-bitcoin-not-shitcoin-6cc826f4fa52
Finally...happy to hear your granddaughter has been educated the right way. The more of us that have this kind of knowledge (ballistics, building, etc), the better.
Appreciate the comment!
"... bitcoin - yes - on the surface it's hard to differentiate. But a little digging goes a long way here. "
OK Mr. Phineas Taylor Barnum (grin), I'll look into it but most won't.
Seriously it's a hard sell, the value of a wallet full of zeros and ones to the general public.
It's be a far easier sale to Joe the janitor as well as the movers and shakers such as yourself and J. Carter of Bars'm if say, one Satoshi, by simple agreed definition, is today, and always will be exchangeable for a troy ounce of gold, I think.
Old Joe and even his fiscally prudent wife Millie would be quite comfortable with his bitcoin wallet knowing he can always exchange a Satoshi for a thousand New Hampshire goldbacks.
& just in case it's not clear, the P. T. Barnum is a bit of joshing, I'm quite impressed with both your package and your presentation!
Off on a tangent; a problem with bitcoin and this, our communications through the internet. is bottlenecks, etc. subject to control, limitation and elimination by Those That Be, whoever they may be.
LoRa and Meshtastic (Long range, very low power radio link packet exchange.) and peer to and through peer nets seem the best way to completely avoid that, but such is not quite ready for prime time yet. I say such having spent some six hours trying to flash firmware into a Heltec LoRa 32, a quick and simple process in say NYC or Blue Ball , PA but not so easy from here in North Pole, Alaska with my wood fired router and tin can and string internet connection to the lower forty eight.
He is avoiding the gold standard, methinks. I wrote above that currently, organisations must possess liquid assets equal to what they are financially trading. That's one. Next, is what Trump proposed and will do - abolish the IRS and Federal Reserve, also carbon tax, apply a flat tax, probably 14-15%, maybe tariifs on imported goods, bring industry back home, pin the dollar to the gold standard (Nixon converted the gold standard to oil based fiat currency) and you do not need Bitcoin at all. Issue physical currency with this rule: the amount of printable money must match how much gold and precious metals, and no more. Even better if one issues just gold and silver coinage. That will take care of most problems, eliminate the need for cryptocurrency (at least until we rebuild and can handle it) and we're good. The rest is technological decentrailisation.
Bitcoin, backed by gold, is in my opinion a good medium of exchange through the aether. Better than credit cards, as credit card companies (and Banks) can and do withhold payments on purchases you make of which they don't approve. Tap your bitcoin wallet containing phone here on the pad, exchange you secret 23ed degree Mason's handshake, grab the keys and drive off in your shiney new car, the exchange was as good as gold because it is gold.
BTW; Trump, flat rate tax, etc. That's what Putin did and probably why media and the government (Repeating myself there.) tell us 24/7 Putin's so evil!
Yup. I may have argued otherwise, but am thinking about it. BRICS announced the building of an alternate trading system, one to be robust. SGAnon mentions an actual study being done in the US to devise a blockchain system that can fend off any hack, is stable, robust, and most interestingly, eliminates the need for third party (central bank) oversight. Indicating probably a combo of personal digital wallets and localised, national and probably smaller banks, eventually eliminating banks altogether. A contractor might be responsible for their own money. Add in no other tax than a flat tax, no IRS, and you have a rather independent and hard to manipulate system.
Specifically, Russia demanded rubles or gold for oil. Bitcoin has a specific amount attached to it which limits it’s use as a currency. However, a quantum blockchain protected currency in physical currency and digital, backed by gold and precious metals with one limit imposed, that limit being only as much gold as a country has can be printed would mitigate fraud.
SGAnon in one of his audio files on Rumble uncovered some information that seems both provable, legit and relevant that also proposes peer to peer trading, that is, one has a digital wallet and there are no third parties to monitor, exchange or control currency. Such a system would need to be robust. So if one is dealing with a contractor, say, one deals directly with a contractor, no banks involved. This is a digital version of the system used in Rome. The house had a chest in which the houses money was kept.
Fortunately, we have guiding principles. We have Judeo-Christian teachings which show us the way. Also, our own founding fathers were well-educated and had studied the ancient literature and philosophy. I hope that we can focus on educating the young so that they truly are able to ponder-well and come to some accurate conclusions about life. Over the past few years, as many of us woke up - we started to see for ourselves (as we learned to trust our own eyes), and to think for ourselves. There is a great deal of good in human beings. After all, we are all children of God. The sky is the limit. We will learn how important the family unit is and how each person in that unit plays an important part in the functioning of the family and therefore, of society. We will teach our children - modesty, industry, honesty and resilience. We will not look to the people who are functioning at a lower, baser level to guide us but rather the best of the best of us. President Donald Trump represents the best of men - real men - with a dangerous quality that he keeps in check. As a woman - I recognize that we need men like that - to keep danger at bay. Women will once again be what we do best - not protecting men who are bigger, taller and more dangerous than us - but being the nurturers, using our gentleness and intuitive ability to respond and protect to take care of the emotional needs of our family. There is a natural order to things. We will know it when we see it. Men are natural builders. Women can make those buildings homes. I have great hope for the future. We have inherited from our forefathers - a wonderful system of government and we can finally see it work. The tide is turning - you can feel it. We are the ones who need to support the others who have remained asleep. We have had years to come to a greater understanding of what is really going on. One step at a time. We have already won. We know it - it is just taking some time for the majority of the human race to accept that fact.
Very beautifully put.
Honored. Thank you Aleksander. I should clarify, the tactic of canceling someone does not make one a loser, dependence on it does. Like dropping a few central bankers in the Marianas Trench for a deposit on a better future, we don't need a mass canceling campaign of terror to send the message of the arrival of a new era. Normies have to be inspired, not cowering in fear.
The end of centralized, fiat, fractional reserve currency seems imminent. They cannot be allowed to move to a central, digital currency.
Excellent clarification. If all you can do is resort to cancellation (and nothing else), it says more about you than your opponent. Inspiration must lead.
And also yes. A CBDC is their wet-dream. And the last real tool they have. We're not going to stop them from rolling them out, but we Can establish parallel economies and networks that operate independently of these panopticons, and THAT is precisely where our effort needs to go. Ultimately, whether it's Bitcoin or Gold, money represents the wealth of a community/society/network. Bitcoin has the greatest carrying capacity IMO, and we just now need to use it as another tool in the toolbox.
You just sold yourself a book, my friend.
Thankyou sir!
I promise it will be worth every penny
I appreciate the forward-thinking nature of this article. I do think that to see the rise of the next civilization we will have to give up some of our fundamental assumptions about the way things work. I'm working on an article describing that necessary rejection and hope to have it published relatively soon. The way things have functioned classically have utilized a reductionist mode of being that presumes the whole can be understood by deconstructing its parts. Unfortunately that does a poor job comprehending complex emergent systems.
A golden bullet like Bitcoin, while I respect it, will not be sufficient to build a new civilization... a holistic understanding of human societies will be needed. We aren't at that stage of development yet, but recognizing the problem should be appreciated. Bitcoin as a (the) decentralized monetary network will be critical to further development. A degree of righteous indignation will be critical to maintaining the initiative in the culture war. We have the initiative and the Left is attempting to re-seize it with a, frankly, abysmal propaganda campaign. They shot at the king and they missed. You can't undo that no matter how much you try to bury it in the media and google algorithms.
One thing we need to focus on is an open-minded optimism. We're not merely rebelling against the modern progressive left, we're forging something new. If we're successful, then we can create a post-industrial era where people really do have a shot at achieving on an equal playing field. If we fail we're likely to see a form of totalitarian Stalinism imposed on the populace by money-printers and AI. You're absolutely correct that this is a fight for the soul of Humanity. We can't afford to lose.
Really appreciate this comment - and I couldn't agree more. While sound money & an incorruptible monetary substrate (IMO: Bitcoin being the only viable option) is an important piece of the puzzle - it's certainly not enough.
In fact - your comment here nailed the EXACT reason why I spent two years writing my new book. It's specifically a discussion about all the other stuff, taking the Bitcoin piece as a "given."
I'll be sharing more. But seriously - I appreciate this comment. You get it.
Looking forward to the book. Would be happy to chat on a podcast sometime if you run one. There's a LOT going on right now in terms of cultural development.
Used to run one, but finished in 2022. Hit my target of 100 eps and alllllmost 1m listens, but have too many other things going on, so closed it down.
Maybe I’ll relaunch one day. We’ll see. If I do, I’ll let you know.
Likewise, If you have the time and ever decide to spin one up, let me know. I’d be happy to come on yours and hopefully give you a boost.
Absolutely! I'm trying to get some material out there and that might be a good idea.
Just a broad-brush comment from me.
I'm with you 100% and over the next few months; the DR needs to be as white-pilled as possible. Reasons:
- Trump is going to win.
- JDV is the absolute best VP choice we could realistically have hoped for...FFS it could seriously have been Marco Rubio! (And, of course, it establishes a proper line of succession as any Caesar should ensure.)
- The PayPal Mafia thing is huge. Yes, these people are not all seriously ideologically aligned with us but they want order and competence and, given the shit show the West has become, at the moment I'll take that in a heartbeat.
- Project 2025 may not fully come to fruition but at least there is a serious movement, with power, acknowledging the mistakes that were made with the 2017-2021 appointments and establishing a framework for his 2nd term.
C'mon guys, we've got these fuckers on the run, we can start to see genuine fear in their eyes (they're beginning to think that the right might actually be serious about taking revenge) and now is not the time for faint hearts...STRENGTH AND HONOUR!
YES.
A much needed white pill of an article. Many thanks.
Thankyou sir !
Thank you for the inspiring read.
I look forward to reading more as people move through the ‘What-to-How Pipeline’.
I often reflect on how destruction is far easier than creation in this realm.
Years of work can be undone in just a minute.
Like you say, it’s crucial to plan and prepare before building.
Whoever has created this culture, spent a lot of time thinking, preparing, anticipating and then, finally, acting.
One of the biggest differences between the classical republic and the modern republic was that the former was a warrior community while the modern was a commercial republic. Different values and virtues will determine the kind of men.
Paul A. Rahe did a very thorough job describing this in his outstanding
Republics Ancient & Modern, Vol. 1: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece.
Regarding debt, our biggest problem is not the Fed or the Bank of England, but Eurodollar which seems to a novice like me to be a completely decentralized currency created by the commercial banks to help USSR get around the sanctions after Hungarian Rebellion. No one seems to know just how much is out there. But the fundamental is still the same, debt is money and money is debt. Cancel the debt and the money supply is reduced, a point made to the Congress in 70s. But commodity’s also money, the first money. So that more assets we have in land, factories, water, oil, the more independent we become. To gain control of those assets required syndication, a teamwork. So, a brotherhood, church, clan could become the organizational structure for this economic activity. Much like the Chinese Oversea or the Knight Templars.
Still, we hasn’t address the why the importance of capital to the economy in a way different from the past economies. Gunpowder is the main cause of Capital’s rise. It cost a lot of money to turn alchemy into chemistry and metallurgy into science rather than artisan craft. Then you need to figure out the math to make cannonballs hit where they’re supposed to hit. This requires a whole new organization that would become an abstract entity called the state and a new tax base. Every ambitious king in Western Europe since 1200s have been working toward this, using the bright middle class men against aristocratic class. The industrial revolution accelerated this process. What’s needed is to democratize the material science, returning power back to the lowest level possible.
This essay is similar to what I wrote in to-day's essay of mine, about the need to hold fast to a shining ideal and to work towards it in defiance of to-day's leftoid incompetent globalist leaders.
Really liked this essay.
Thankyou Brother.
I will try to put some time aside over the weekend to read yours also
It’s my Old Code essay about Dragonheart the movie’s Code of Chivalry.
Not as good as your own essay. It’s just where John Carter and those with him look to futurism for hope I look to history and fantasy and the past.
I wonder how much we can fix technologically. A move towards a monero (xmr) (don't worry, I hate the crypto bros as well) and a private (as in privacy) blockchain economy, with E2E P2P messaging technology, and privacy and freedom from the government at scale, in my view, is the most effective and antifragile way to do this.
The only way IMO to fix the privacy issue is at the transaction layers. You cannot do it at the settlement layer. Fedimints, e-cash, lightning, ark, liquid, coin-join and all of these side chains are anchored to bitcoin, who's entire point of existence is to guarantee a finite supply and ultimate transaction settlement (can be individual or batched).
The privacy piece comes above that, in the layers that people use on a day to day basis (like cash). And when you batch or aggregate onto the main chain, you solve for privacy there too.
In this way, you get the best of both worlds. Settlement guarantees (good article here on this: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurances-stupid-5dcd1c3f4e41) and then you can get maximum functional privacy through MANY methods (each with the pro's and cons). So that way it's even HARDER for the government monkeys to deal with it. An entire market for privacy is much better than a single method (XMR, or whatever).
If you want to work together, I'd love to do a full write up covering the whole space. From matrix.org decentralised chats to private and anonymous transactions.
Sure. Shoot me a DM and we can coordinate. There’s Loads happening and while I’m super busy now finishing the book, at the very least I can point you in the right direction and help you make sure all the key things are covered.
A couple of years ago I did a fairly extensive online course in Bitcoin from none other than Gary Gensler, current head of the SEC and lead warrior in the current illegitimate government's attempt to quash it, led by Alleged President Joe Stolen and his puppeteers. I've read several more books on Real Money and am convinced that Bitcoin will go a long way toward righting this ship. I have a physical wallet; now I have to figure out how to obtain some 'coin anonymously; otherwise some gub'ment - at some time - will want to do what they're trying to do now: tax you on Bitcoin's "appreciation" - read that, the dollar's collapse.
Great to hear!
And yep - the key now is to do that. Honestly - the best way to is to earn it.
Trade a good or a service for some. There are marketplaces sprouting up all over the world.
The other option is to find a local meetup and establish some relationships there. Micro, private peer to peer marketplaces are also in existence all over (but by their nature are hard to find).
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