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Last Notes npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Damus’ new “who to follow” feature is as offensive as YouTube or Netflix or Amazon’s watch recommendations. Algorithms that guide thought inhibit personal exploration, and consolidate opinions into a unified groupthink. This is the proof of stake model…those who have the most (dollars or followers) encourage governing algorithms to boost their product selectively over the products of others. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius In Frederick Douglass’ Narrative, he describes being struck by the poverty of the northern people that he met upon his arrival in Newport. His conclusion was that without slavery as he had known in the south, there can be no wealth. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I think about this every time TSA is feeling me up at the airport. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “The credit system, which has its focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is one enormous centralization and gives this class of parasites a fabulous power not only to decimate the industrial capitalists periodically but also to interfere in actual production in the most dangerous manner - and this crew know nothing of production and have nothing at all to do wish it.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Sometimes I like to throw out a quotation without a citation… an excellent thought with which most people interested in delivering humanity from enslavement by the financial industry will agree. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-232-is-the-us-a-failed-state-with-michael-hudson/ npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius When I studied Animal Farm in school, the teacher’s presentation was simply “communism bad”…and by extension, “America’s alternative good.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Debt for young people condemns them to a lifetime of wage slavery. Slavery exists, but the financial industry has renamed it, and has shifted its burden onto a larger cross section of the population npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Have you ever read Orwell’s intro to Animal Farm that wasn’t published with the book? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 😃 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius In a hospital npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I had a client with a Bitcoin tattoo this morning. The conversation quickly went from the business at hand…to the business of saving mankind. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius No idea is leftist or rightist. Ideas are true or untrue, logical or illogical. People are the only things that align themselves with cognitive camps wherein they allow or disallow those ideas based on their association rather than their validity. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I disagree with the vaccine comment too… but I don’t lose site of an incredible message because of an unrelated opinion that I disagree with. If I shared my views on meat, people would probably unfollow me and assume that everything else I say is tainted. Ideas don’t work like that. Compartmentalization and association of ideas is a logical fallacy. Ideas need to be evaluated on their individual merits. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius It’s not just that “crime increases.” Crime is a symptom of mystery and need. Create a miserable and fearful population, and people have to look to antisocial behavior to fulfill their needs or find validation. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius It’s a win-win for the banking class. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Good hash day npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius My fiat job a delight. I do twenty minutes of work, then sit back with my coffee and a Noam Chomsky lecture, to delight in a wealth of understanding about power and oppression. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I can’t wait, Professor npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius If your government and their media ask you to: npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius What is progressive taxation? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius #The Way of the Superior Man npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius https://youtu.be/aLwRZibUqL0 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Ah…new cars. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “…freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the power, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is influenced by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The only art form that we ever created and perfected was the television commercial. We have nothing else to our credit as a civilization. To try and persuade people to buy things they don’t need that are probably bad for them and may blow up in their face… why not sell the next president in the same way and make him just as phony as detergent? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 👍 Too many examples. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Nostr is probably the wrong market for airdrop shitcoinery… npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius A few days until Block 800,000. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The Romans conquered the Middle East to “civilize the barbarians” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Shitcoiners fall victim to the same logical fallacy. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Well, you are a math teacher. A 25% chance of breaking even on slot machines actually means something to you. Other people make decisions based on emotion and the imagined feeling of winning. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius If you’re trying to flee your country, KYC vs Non-KYC could be the difference between safe emigration and indefinite holding in a cell until capital-gains is paid. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Always love a rodent-themed post npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I don’t go to psychics, and I don’t entertain PlanB’s endless forecasting about future values. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “The core of anarchist tradition is that power is always illegitimate, until it proves itself to be legitimate… npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “Although various rationales were given for these wars, each was undertaken primarily to expand worldwide US military hegemony by gaining permanent American military bases in these countries. The delusionary impetus of these costly and destructive enterprises is captured by the definition of the philosophical phrase reductio AB absurdum: "a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequences is absurd or contradictory."” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius BRICS countries have twice the population as dollar-obligate countries. Once they establish their currency based on proportional contributions of each member’s currencies, and are able to make loans denominated in that currency, then debt denominated in dollars will lose all that luster that you find alluring. We’re already well down the road toward that point where treasury notes held by foreign entireties will be dumped, and the corporate debt accounting for the 40% of the value of the S+P owned by foreign governments and business will be sold off. The fact that “everybody uses the dollar” is an observation, not an appreciation of the the world’s trajectory. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Bank bailouts do not stabilize the economy as billionaires would have us believe. They shift liabilities onto taxpayers. The financial class who yell “free market” are precisely those who designed a legal system that protects the rich at the expense of the poor. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Debates about the quality of human nature seldom take into account the contribution that basic needs play in decision making. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius To opt out of fiat is not to succumb to political ambivalence. In fact, Bitcoin is a politically relevant decision. Our democracy has been reduced to a form of representative government which is by nature, distanced from the citizen. A protocol that receives users’ feedback directly by way of POW and nodes, embodies a democratic element that has been lost in real politics. This character strengthens its resistance to anti-political appeals to patriotism, fear, and demagoguery. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Designing an enemy for the population to fear. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 👍Excited to read this when I have some time tonight. Manufacturing Consent is one of those books that redefines one’s world view. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius To opt out of fiat is not to succumb to political ambivalence. In fact, Bitcoin is a politically relevant decision. Our democracy has been reduced to a form of representative government which is by nature, distanced from the citizen. A protocol that receives users’ feedback directly by way of POW and nodes, embodies a democratic element that has been lost in real politics. This character strengthens its resistance to anti-political appeals to patriotism, fear, and demagoguery. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius There is no left-right conflict inherent in the system. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The power of decentralized money, communication, media… is not economic equality, but political equality. These protocols have the potential to undermine the elite’s claim that economic status should dictate political participation. The current relationship is by nature illiberal. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius It is crucial to recognize the tension between political democracy and economic power. The demos strives for political equality, and the elite claims that political inequality is a natural and acceptable aspect of economic inequality. When economic status dictates political status, democracy becomes impossible. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Hello Brother, npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Awesome. Now you can sell your furnace to buy some more miners. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Belief in species exceptionalism…or cultural exceptionalism…or national exceptionalism…or genetic exceptionalism…depends on a mythical and imagined foundation. The only exceptionalism is in life itself. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius What do you mean by that? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 🫂🐿 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 🫂 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I think freedom from ideology is greatly liberating. Why find comfort in a set of collected beliefs and values designed for you by a political tribe? Designing your own set based on an independent world view, allows you to define your own tenets and then extract logical conclusions. The existing plutocracy would rather present you with allowable conclusions, and hope that you ignore the fact that the natural tenets of human need do not support them. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius At the fiat mine, making more money than most, because I know a thing about barriers to entry, trade monopolies, and state regulations... not because my time is worth more, or because my craft is more valuable. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Looks good 👍🐿 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Agricultural practices in India and the western US are key causes npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103509 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius We’re terrified of public opinion from the moment we’re born, partially due to religious training, partially due to an educational system that is not very interested in educating us. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius According to Thorstein Veblen, wealth was historically measured in personal time: leisure, the ability to let your wife stay at home, the time to study and learn. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius A concise explanation of how the US exports inflation to developing countries. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The conditions, and the balance of leaders and followers that are necessary for successful and sustained revolution has been debated for years. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius You’re absolutely right…the House, full of the ultra-rich living off of rents and corporate bribes in exchange for legal favors certainly isn’t representative of the people who labor for their money. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius And because of this sentiment, we have an elite class of managers that constantly enact polities that roll up our rights, shift wealth out of our hands into theirs, privatize public resources to sell back to us, sacrifice social services for more lucrative exploits, and create ever more Orwellian surveillance policies sold to us as “protection.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius We feel that we are losing our rights, but many of our “rights” were only ever imaginary. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The purpose of the Constitution was to shift power back away from the people…a democracy enacted by the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution reestablished a representative government over a republican government, wherein the only branch of government truly representative of the people would be the House of Representatives. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “…to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius https://www.commentary.org/articles/sohrab-ahmari/terrible-american-turn-toward-illiberalism/ npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “Be a man of vision, Palamedes. A lookout and a statesman who perceives the whole of the politics that forms the needs of our people.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Programmatically, both the Republican and Democratic parties exist to advance corporate economic and political interests. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius When we use terms incorrectly to elicit feelings in the reader, we diminish the value of our communication npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Pursuit of ideologies leads to ignorance. Pursue understanding. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius People lose their ability to describe oppressive relationships with power when they use terms like “socialist,” “fascist,” “communist.” These terms have been hijacked and reinterpreted for us so that the original meanings are misunderstood by most. To use such a term interchangeably for “bad” belittles the original meaning and demotes whatever message you’re trying to share. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Nationalism and patriotism, not ideology, suffice to control the American population and gain its support. Patriotism requires no collective self-examination. It needs only a spontaneous response to whatever threat is sold to the population npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius When did the people delegate “most powerful force in the world” to the government? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius As long as Bitcoin uses the RIPEMD160 hash function, there are 2^160 Bitcoin addresses. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius There is no natural harmony among self interests, especially when a small part of the population has access to unlimited 0% loans, while the majority of the population is relegated to 17% interest contracts on credit cards. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I notice that all teaching about Adam Smith invokes a mythical yearning that unrestrained competition will somehow lead to a world of morally relevant economic interactions, rather than to a world of unrestrained monopolies growing ever larger. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The amorphous character assigned to the new world of terrorism justifies an ever-enlarging power of state. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Real patriotism is a commitment to the wellness of all fellow creatures. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius We live within an economic system that is designed to allow the exploration of the many in the service of the few. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius A normie gets a paycheck for doing his job all day. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius This is excellent. On many occasions I have wrestled with the desire to start a cooperative of some sort. Maybe a public internet library. Maybe a homeschooling cooperative. Maybe a drainage company. I don’t know; it’s the structure that frees workers from wage slavery that most interests me. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “This is how the financial sector operates. It tricks the host economy’s brain—the educational system and the government as planner and lawmaker—to make it think that the way to grow is to promote a financial oligarchy.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The University has been remodeled from a study model, and is quickly becoming a credentialing model. Man’s desire to improve his life makes him a ready market for the elite to sell those credentials to him for a life of debt. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The perpetual need to hop investments is past. Mathematics, usability, and glaring improvement on the shortcomings of the largest industry (finance), make Bitcoin growth inevitable npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius That’s the success of American Capitalism. To prioritize business profits over social good. That’s what it’s all about. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Let us question all the establishments that are so ingrained in our lives that their existence is assumed to be normal, rather than parasitic. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “the West faces the dreadful prospect that it could become the standard-bearer of a new regime type: a socially totalizing, surveilling, information-monopolizing, biopolitical, and martial regime disguised in the feel-good casing of liberal democracy” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The way to sell a book: npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I don’t blame the victim. I blame a system that values the extraction of profit and information over the natural rights of the public. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I retroactively salute those who participated in the Occupy movement, who understood that participatory democracy is about sit-ins, riots, strikes, pickets, and speeches. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I lived in NY during the Occupy Wall Street movement. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius It is self-subverting for the managers of democracy to subordinate egalitarian convictions to the pursuit of expansive politics npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I don’t know a thing about that scale, but I’m delighted to have something new to read about today at work! npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius And your endocrinologist
