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 This is true. But the sooner the darkest moments arrive the sooner it can start to get light again. I know it's a cliché, but you know, what else do we have :)

 The vast majority of humans simply are not wired to prepare way in advance to avoid what we know is coming. It's our chimp brain, I think. We procrastinate, then try move mountains. When it works, and we turn things around under fire, fine we pat ourselves on the back, good job.... But it doesn't always work. Just look at Easter Island. 

But most is not all, and I think maybe this time round, Bitcoin has become the long term escape plan that is attracting a different breed of person, ones who do have a wiser long term view and the nuts to act.

People like Ralph Nader, I'm not into politics, but as an example, he reckoned 2 million ardent supporters could easily usher in a new age. But he never got that far.

And someone else did a rough ready reckoner that in the world there were 120 million people expressing similar views, and feeling the same sense of wtf is going on, the world is going to shit, dont know why exactly, but 120 million were feeling it in their bones. 

BUT, like Nader there was no sufficient centraling force or idea or cause that was able to  pull all those souls together. Divided, clueless, no means of rallying round a theme. Bless us, but we were less than useless. But most of us have hardly suffered because we have been adleep.

Think about the guys in the Amazon who have "known" for 400 years that the European way was going to usher in a collapse of everything they held dear. 60's hippies have only had 60 years of dissonance to cope with!

But since 2008 the dissonance has further risen and spead. But for most of the worriers, there has been no solution. Just gotta live with it, suck it up, all sorts of coping mechanisms kicking in to help you not feel or go mad with deep seated angst that is hard to express and no solution to offer.

Nowadays more Lightbulbs are flashing about the world really going in a bad direction. But still the tanker doesn't turn. 

But out there, a relative few have out 100 hours research into that weird thing called  bitcoin, and it is putting meat on the uncomfortable bones. 

Bitcoin doesn't just point out the problems that all the outlying thinkers like the Nader's, the Chomskies, all those " radical" indigenous and tree huggers and  suited talking heads on all sides of the aisle  have been talking around endlessly. 

 Bitcoin is a very workable and sustaining solution. And it's globally available, and can unite 120 million people around a way out. And it won't change on us,  as more people get behind it.

It's going to be alright! Rich, poor, left, right, up, down, in life we have all met people who are different. A super rich person who is genuinely the kindest soul with the same time to offer as your patient gran when you were a snotty kid. Or your window cleaner who you find out has been running a book reading service for the blind for 20 years and never said a word about it. And the filthy rich lawyer who never charges for most of their cases. And so it goes on.

 Bitcoin has the attention and support of the best salesmen on earth, money men who know Wall St better than anyone currently on Wall St. Insanely fearless advocates of peace and human rights, farmers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, Bitcoiners... with that mind that does look ahead and actually acts, not fazed that, currently, it keeps getting darker, not fazed, because it will reach that point when the light starts to ascend. And the work is being done so everyone, not just the ones with foresight, had the option to step off Easter Island onto a much better place. 

I don't know where that came from...but

GM :)